帖撒罗尼迦前书 4
Chinese New Version (Simplified)
要讨 神喜悦
4 此外,弟兄们,我们在主耶稣里求你们,劝你们,你们既然接受了我们的教训,知道应该怎样行事为人,并且怎样讨 神喜悦,就要照你们现在所行的更进一步。 2 我们凭着主耶稣传给你们的是甚么命令,你们是知道的。 3 神的旨意是要你们圣洁,远避淫行; 4 要你们各人晓得怎样用圣洁尊贵的方法保守自己的身体(“身体”原文作“器皿”); 5 不要放纵邪情私欲,像那些不认识 神的外族人一样; 6 谁也不要在这事上越轨,占弟兄的便宜,因为这一类的事,主必报应。这是我们从前告诉过你们,又严严警戒过你们的。 7 神呼召我们,不是要我们沾染污秽,而是要我们圣洁。 8 所以那弃绝这命令的,不是弃绝人,而是弃绝把他自己的圣灵赐给你们的那位 神。
9 论到弟兄相爱,用不着人写甚么给你们,因为你们自己受了 神的教导,要彼此相爱。 10 其实,你们向全马其顿所有的弟兄,已经这样行了。但是,弟兄们,我们劝你们要更加彼此相爱; 11 又要立志过安静的生活,办自己的事,亲手作工,正如我们从前吩咐过你们, 12 使你们行事为人可以得到外人的尊敬,自己也不会有甚么缺乏了。
在主里睡了的人必先复活
13 弟兄们,论到睡了的人,我们不愿意你们不知道,免得你们忧伤,像那些没有盼望的人一样。 14 我们若信耶稣死了,又复活了,照样,也应该相信那些靠着耶稣已经睡了的人, 神必定把他们和耶稣一同带来。
15 我们现在照着主的话告诉你们:我们这些活着存留到主再来的人,绝不能在那些睡了的人以先。 16 因为主必亲自从天降临,那时,有发令的声音,有天使长的呼声,还有 神的号声,那些在基督里死了的人必先复活; 17 然后,我们还活着存留的人,必和他们一同被提到云里,在空中与主相会。这样,我们就要和主常常同在。 18 所以,你们应该用这些话彼此劝慰。
1 Thessalonians 4
Easy-to-Read Version
A Life That Pleases God
4 Brothers and sisters, now I have some other things to tell you. We taught you how to live in a way that will please God. And you are living that way. Now we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live that way more and more. 2 You know all that we told you to do by the authority of the Lord Jesus. 3 God wants you to be holy. He wants you to stay away from sexual sins. 4 God wants each one of you to learn to control your own body. Use your body in a way that is holy and that gives honor to God.[a] 5 Don’t let your sexual desires control you like the people who don’t know God. 6 Never wrong any of your fellow believers or cheat them in this way. The Lord will punish those who do that. We have already told you this and warned you about it. 7 God chose us to be holy. He does not want us to live in sin. 8 So anyone who refuses to obey this teaching is refusing to obey God, not us. And God is the one who gives you his Holy Spirit.
9 We don’t need to write to you about having love for your brothers and sisters in Christ. God has already taught you to love each other. 10 In fact, you love all the believers in Macedonia. We encourage you now, brothers and sisters, to show your love more and more.
11 Do all you can to live a peaceful life. Mind your own business, and earn your own living, as we told you before. 12 If you do these things, then those who are not believers will respect the way you live. And you will not have to depend on others for what you need.
The Lord’s Coming
13 Brothers and sisters, we want you to know about those who have died. We don’t want you to be sad like other people—those who have no hope. 14 We believe that Jesus died, but we also believe that he rose again. So we believe that God will raise to life through Jesus any who have died and bring them together with him when he comes.
15 What we tell you now is the Lord’s own message. Those of us who are still living when the Lord comes again will join him, but not before those who have already died. 16 The Lord himself will come down from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. And the people who have died and were in Christ will rise first. 17 After that we who are still alive at that time will be gathered up with those who have died. We will be taken up in the clouds and meet the Lord in the air. And we will be with the Lord forever. 18 So encourage each other with these words.
Footnotes
- 1 Thessalonians 4:4 Or “God wants each of you to learn to live with your wife in a way that is holy and that gives honor to God.”
1 Thessalonians 4
New International Version
Living to Please God
4 As for other matters, brothers and sisters,(A) we instructed you how to live(B) in order to please God,(C) as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more. 2 For you know what instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.
3 It is God’s will(D) that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;(E) 4 that each of you should learn to control your own body[a](F) in a way that is holy and honorable, 5 not in passionate lust(G) like the pagans,(H) who do not know God;(I) 6 and that in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister.[b](J) The Lord will punish(K) all those who commit such sins,(L) as we told you and warned you before. 7 For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.(M) 8 Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject a human being but God, the very God who gives you his Holy Spirit.(N)
9 Now about your love for one another(O) we do not need to write to you,(P) for you yourselves have been taught by God(Q) to love each other.(R) 10 And in fact, you do love all of God’s family throughout Macedonia.(S) Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more,(T) 11 and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands,(U) just as we told you, 12 so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders(V) and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.
Believers Who Have Died
13 Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed(W) about those who sleep in death,(X) so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope.(Y) 14 For we believe that Jesus died and rose again,(Z) and so we believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in him.(AA) 15 According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord,(AB) will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep.(AC) 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven,(AD) with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel(AE) and with the trumpet call of God,(AF) and the dead in Christ will rise first.(AG) 17 After that, we who are still alive and are left(AH) will be caught up together with them in the clouds(AI) to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord(AJ) forever. 18 Therefore encourage one another(AK) with these words.
Footnotes
- 1 Thessalonians 4:4 Or learn to live with your own wife; or learn to acquire a wife
- 1 Thessalonians 4:6 The Greek word for brother or sister (adelphos) refers here to a believer, whether man or woman, as part of God’s family.
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