帖撒羅尼迦前書 4
Chinese Standard Bible (Traditional)
做聖潔的人
4 此外，弟兄們，我們在主耶穌裡請求你們、勸勉你們：既然從我們學到了該怎樣行事為人，怎樣討神的喜悅——就像你們也在行的——你們就要更加努力， 2 因為你們知道，我們藉著主耶穌所傳給你們的是什麼吩咐。
3 神的旨意正是要你們分別為聖：要你們遠避淫亂， 4 要你們每個人知道怎樣在聖潔、尊貴中持守自己的身體[a]， 5 而不要像那些不認識神的外邦人那樣，放縱邪情私欲； 6 不可有人在這事上越軌，對不起他的弟兄，因為關於這一切事，主是報應者，正如我們以前也告訴過、鄭重地勸誡過你們。 7 要知道，神召喚我們，不是要我們沾染汙穢，而是要我們分別為聖。 8 因此，那拒絕這吩咐[b]的，不是拒絕人，而是拒絕神——就是將他的聖靈賜給你們[c]的那一位。
基督徒的行事為人
9 關於弟兄之愛，你們不需要我[d]寫什麼給你們，因為你們自己蒙了神的教導，要彼此相愛。 10 實際上，你們對整個馬其頓省的所有弟兄就是這樣做的。不過弟兄們，我們勸你們要更加努力。 11 你們要立定心志安靜下來、做自己的事、親手做工，正如我們曾經吩咐過你們的， 12 好使你們在外人面前能夠行事端正，不會有什麼缺乏[e]。
基督再來的盼望
13 弟兄們，關於睡了的人，我們不願意你們不明白，免得你們憂傷，就像其他那些沒有盼望的人一樣。 14 我們既然相信耶穌死而復活了，照樣也相信，那些藉著耶穌已經睡了的人，神將要把他們與耶穌一同帶來[f]。 15 的確，我們現在照著主的話告訴你們這一點：我們這些活著存留到主來臨的人，絕不會在那些已經睡了的人之先， 16 因為在發令的呼喊聲中，在天使長的聲音和神的號角聲中，主要親自從天降臨，而且那些在基督裡死去的人要先復活， 17 然後我們這些還活著存留的人，要與他們一同被提到雲裡，在空中與主相會。這樣，我們就要永遠與主在一起了。 18 所以，你們當用這些話彼此鼓勵。
Footnotes
- 帖撒羅尼迦前書 4:4 持守自己的身體——原文直譯「擁有自己的器皿」或「擁有自己的妻子」。
- 帖撒羅尼迦前書 4:8 這吩咐——輔助詞語。
- 帖撒羅尼迦前書 4:8 你們——有古抄本作「我們」。
- 帖撒羅尼迦前書 4:9 我——輔助詞語。
- 帖撒羅尼迦前書 4:12 不會有什麼缺乏——或譯作「不需要依賴任何人」。
- 帖撒羅尼迦前書 4:14 帶來——或譯作「帶去」或「領去」。
1 Thessalonians 4
King James Version
4 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
2 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
10 And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;
11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
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