帖撒罗尼迦前书 4
Chinese New Version (Traditional)
要討 神喜悅
4 此外，弟兄們，我們在主耶穌裡求你們，勸你們，你們既然接受了我們的教訓，知道應該怎樣行事為人，並且怎樣討 神喜悅，就要照你們現在所行的更進一步。 2 我們憑著主耶穌傳給你們的是甚麼命令，你們是知道的。 3 神的旨意是要你們聖潔，遠避淫行； 4 要你們各人曉得怎樣用聖潔尊貴的方法保守自己的身體（“身體”原文作“器皿”）； 5 不要放縱邪情私慾，像那些不認識 神的外族人一樣； 6 誰也不要在這事上越軌，佔弟兄的便宜，因為這一類的事，主必報應。這是我們從前告訴過你們，又嚴嚴警戒過你們的。 7 神呼召我們，不是要我們沾染污穢，而是要我們聖潔。 8 所以那棄絕這命令的，不是棄絕人，而是棄絕把他自己的聖靈賜給你們的那位 神。
9 論到弟兄相愛，用不著人寫甚麼給你們，因為你們自己受了 神的教導，要彼此相愛。 10 其實，你們向全馬其頓所有的弟兄，已經這樣行了。但是，弟兄們，我們勸你們要更加彼此相愛； 11 又要立志過安靜的生活，辦自己的事，親手作工，正如我們從前吩咐過你們， 12 使你們行事為人可以得到外人的尊敬，自己也不會有甚麼缺乏了。
在主裡睡了的人必先復活
13 弟兄們，論到睡了的人，我們不願意你們不知道，免得你們憂傷，像那些沒有盼望的人一樣。 14 我們若信耶穌死了，又復活了，照樣，也應該相信那些靠著耶穌已經睡了的人， 神必定把他們和耶穌一同帶來。
15 我們現在照著主的話告訴你們：我們這些活著存留到主再來的人，絕不能在那些睡了的人以先。 16 因為主必親自從天降臨，那時，有發令的聲音，有天使長的呼聲，還有 神的號聲，那些在基督裡死了的人必先復活； 17 然後，我們還活著存留的人，必和他們一同被提到雲裡，在空中與主相會。這樣，我們就要和主常常同在。 18 所以，你們應該用這些話彼此勸慰。
1 Thessalonians 4
Good News Translation
A Life That Pleases God
4 Finally, our friends, you learned from us how you should live in order to please God. This is, of course, the way you have been living. And now we beg and urge you in the name of the Lord Jesus to do even more. 2 For you know the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus. 3 God wants you to be holy and completely free from sexual immorality. 4 Each of you should know how to live with your wife[a] in a holy and honorable way, 5 not with a lustful desire, like the heathen who do not know God. 6 In this matter, then, none of you should do wrong to other Christians or take advantage of them. We have told you this before, and we strongly warned you that the Lord will punish those who do that. 7 God did not call us to live in immorality, but in holiness. 8 So then, whoever rejects this teaching is not rejecting a human being, but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.
9 There is no need to write you about love for each other. You yourselves have been taught by God how you should love one another. 10 And you have, in fact, behaved like this toward all the believers in all of Macedonia. So we beg you, our friends, to do even more. 11 Make it your aim to live a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to earn your own living, just as we told you before. 12 In this way you will win the respect of those who are not believers, and you will not have to depend on anyone for what you need.
The Lord's Coming
13 Our friends, we want you to know the truth about those who have died, so that you will not be sad, as are those who have no hope. 14 We believe that Jesus died and rose again, and so we believe that God will take back with Jesus those who have died believing in him.
15 (A)What we are teaching you now is the Lord's teaching: we who are alive on the day the Lord comes will not go ahead of those who have died. 16 (B)There will be the shout of command, the archangel's voice, the sound of God's trumpet, and the Lord himself will come down from heaven. Those who have died believing in Christ will rise to life first; 17 then we who are living at that time will be gathered up along with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord. 18 So then, encourage one another with these words.
Footnotes
- 1 Thessalonians 4:4 live with your wife; or control your body.
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