帖撒罗尼迦前书 4
Chinese Standard Bible (Simplified)
做圣洁的人
4 此外，弟兄们，我们在主耶稣里请求你们、劝勉你们：既然从我们学到了该怎样行事为人，怎样讨神的喜悦——就像你们也在行的——你们就要更加努力， 2 因为你们知道，我们藉着主耶稣所传给你们的是什么吩咐。
3 神的旨意正是要你们分别为圣：要你们远避淫乱， 4 要你们每个人知道怎样在圣洁、尊贵中持守自己的身体[a]， 5 而不要像那些不认识神的外邦人那样，放纵邪情私欲； 6 不可有人在这事上越轨，对不起他的弟兄，因为关于这一切事，主是报应者，正如我们以前也告诉过、郑重地劝诫过你们。 7 要知道，神召唤我们，不是要我们沾染污秽，而是要我们分别为圣。 8 因此，那拒绝这吩咐[b]的，不是拒绝人，而是拒绝神——就是将他的圣灵赐给你们[c]的那一位。
基督徒的行事为人
9 关于弟兄之爱，你们不需要我[d]写什么给你们，因为你们自己蒙了神的教导，要彼此相爱。 10 实际上，你们对整个马其顿省的所有弟兄就是这样做的。不过弟兄们，我们劝你们要更加努力。 11 你们要立定心志安静下来、做自己的事、亲手做工，正如我们曾经吩咐过你们的， 12 好使你们在外人面前能够行事端正，不会有什么缺乏[e]。
基督再来的盼望
13 弟兄们，关于睡了的人，我们不愿意你们不明白，免得你们忧伤，就像其他那些没有盼望的人一样。 14 我们既然相信耶稣死而复活了，照样也相信，那些藉着耶稣已经睡了的人，神将要把他们与耶稣一同带来[f]。 15 的确，我们现在照着主的话告诉你们这一点：我们这些活着存留到主来临的人，绝不会在那些已经睡了的人之先， 16 因为在发令的呼喊声中，在天使长的声音和神的号角声中，主要亲自从天降临，而且那些在基督里死去的人要先复活， 17 然后我们这些还活着存留的人，要与他们一同被提到云里，在空中与主相会。这样，我们就要永远与主在一起了。 18 所以，你们当用这些话彼此鼓励。
Footnotes
- 帖撒罗尼迦前书 4:4 持守自己的身体——原文直译“拥有自己的器皿”或“拥有自己的妻子”。
- 帖撒罗尼迦前书 4:8 这吩咐——辅助词语。
- 帖撒罗尼迦前书 4:8 你们——有古抄本作“我们”。
- 帖撒罗尼迦前书 4:9 我——辅助词语。
- 帖撒罗尼迦前书 4:12 不会有什么缺乏——或译作“不需要依赖任何人”。
- 帖撒罗尼迦前书 4:14 带来——或译作“带去”或“领去”。
1 Thessalonians 4
New King James Version
Plea for Purity
4 Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus (A)that you should abound more and more, (B)just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God; 2 for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
3 For this is (C)the will of God, (D)your sanctification: (E)that you should abstain from sexual immorality; 4 (F)that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 (G)not in passion of lust, (H)like the Gentiles (I)who do not know God; 6 that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord (J)is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified. 7 For God did not call us to uncleanness, (K)but in holiness. 8 (L)Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, (M)who[a] has also given us His Holy Spirit.
A Brotherly and Orderly Life
9 But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for (N)you yourselves are taught by God (O)to love one another; 10 and indeed you do so toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, (P)that you increase more and more; 11 that you also aspire to lead a quiet life, (Q)to mind your own business, and (R)to work with your own hands, as we commanded you, 12 (S)that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing.
The Comfort of Christ’s Coming
13 But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen [b]asleep, lest you sorrow (T)as others (U)who have no hope. 14 For (V)if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him (W)those who [c]sleep in Jesus.
15 For this we say to you (X)by the word of the Lord, that (Y)we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are [d]asleep. 16 For (Z)the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with (AA)the trumpet of God. (AB)And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 (AC)Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them (AD)in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus (AE)we shall always be with the Lord. 18 (AF)Therefore comfort one another with these words.
Footnotes
- 1 Thessalonians 4:8 NU who also gives
- 1 Thessalonians 4:13 Died
- 1 Thessalonians 4:14 Or through Jesus sleep
- 1 Thessalonians 4:15 Dead
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