帖撒羅尼迦前書 4
Chinese Contemporary Bible (Traditional)
上帝喜悅的生活
4 最後，弟兄姊妹，既然你們領受了我們的教導，知道怎樣行才能討上帝的喜悅，如你們現在所行的，我們靠著主耶穌懇求、勸勉你們要更加努力。 2 你們都知道我們靠著主耶穌傳給你們的誡命。 3 上帝的旨意是要你們聖潔，遠避淫亂的事， 4 要你們人人都知道持守身體的聖潔和尊貴， 5 不可荒淫縱慾，像那些不認識上帝的外族人一樣。 6 你們在這種事上不可越軌，虧負弟兄姊妹。我們曾經對你們說過，並且鄭重地警告過你們，主必懲治犯這種罪的人。 7 因為上帝呼召我們不是要我們沾染污穢，而是要我們聖潔。 8 所以，人若拒絕遵行這命令，他不是拒絕人，而是拒絕賜聖靈給你們的上帝。
9 關於弟兄姊妹彼此相愛的事，我就不必多寫了，因為你們自己從上帝那裡領受了要彼此相愛的教導。 10 你們對馬其頓全境的弟兄姊妹已經做到了這一點。不過，我勸各位要再接再厲。 11 你們要立志過安分守己的生活，親手做工，正如我們以前吩咐你們的。 12 這樣，你們可以得到外人的尊敬，不必依賴任何人。
復活的盼望
13 弟兄姊妹，關於安息的信徒[a]，我不願意你們一無所知，免得你們像那些沒有盼望的人一樣悲傷。 14 我們既然相信耶穌死了，又復活了，也要相信上帝必把那些安息的信徒和耶穌一同帶來。
15 我們把主耶穌的話告訴你們：主再來的那天，我們還活著的人不會比已安息的信徒先見到主。 16 因為主必在號令聲、天使長的呼喊聲和上帝的號角聲中親自從天降臨，已經離世的基督徒必先復活。 17 然後，我們還活著的人要和他們一起被提到雲裡，在空中與主相會，永遠和主在一起。 18 所以你們要用這些話彼此鼓勵。
Footnotes
- 4·13 「安息的信徒」希臘文是「睡了的人」，聖經常用「睡了」作為「死了」的委婉說法，參見約翰福音十一章11—14節。
1 Thessalonians 4
New Century Version
A Life that Pleases God
4 Brothers and sisters, 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 even more. 2 You know what we told you to do by the authority of the Lord Jesus. 3 God wants you to be holy and to stay away from sexual sins. 4 He wants each of you to learn to control your own body[a] in a way that is holy and honorable. 5 Don’t use your body for sexual sin like the people who do not know God. 6 Also, do not wrong or cheat another Christian in this way. The Lord will punish people who do those things as we have already told you and warned you. 7 God called us to be holy and does not want us to live in sin. 8 So the person who refuses to obey this teaching is disobeying God, not simply a human teaching. And God is the One who gives us his Holy Spirit.
9 We do not need to write you about having love for your Christian family, because God has already taught you to love each other. 10 And truly you do love the Christians in all of Macedonia. Brothers and sisters, now we encourage you to love them even more.
11 Do all you can to live a peaceful life. Take care of your own business, and do your own work as we have already told you. 12 If you do, then people who are not believers will respect you, 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 Christians who have died so you will not be sad, as others who have no hope. 14 We believe that Jesus died and that he rose again. So, because of him, God will raise with Jesus those who have died. 15 What we tell you now is the Lord’s own message. We who are living when the Lord comes again will not go 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,[b] and with the trumpet call of God. And those who have died believing in Christ will rise first. 17 After that, we who are still alive will be gathered up with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And we will be with the Lord forever. 18 So encourage each other with these words.
The Holy Bible, New Century Version®. Copyright © 2005 by Thomas Nelson, Inc.
