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1 Thessalonians 4

Brothers, We Ask You To Abound Even More In Holiness, For This Is God’s Will

4 Finally then, brothers, we ask you, and exhort in the Lord Jesus that just as you received from us how you ought-to be walking and pleasing God (just as you also are walking), that you be abounding more. ²For you know what commands we gave to you through the Lord Jesus. ³For this is the will of God: your holiness^[a]— that you be abstaining^[b] from sexual-immorality; ⁴that each of you know-how to acquire^[c] control of his own vessel^[d] in holiness and honor, ⁵not in the passion of ^[e] desire^[f] as indeed the Gentiles not knowing God; ⁶that^[g] no one overstep^[h] and exploit^[i] his brother^[j] in the matter^[k]. Because the Lord is the avenger concerning all these things, just as we also told you before and solemnly-warned. ⁷For God did not call us for^[l] impurity, but in^[m] holiness. ⁸So-therefore^[n] the one rejecting is not rejecting a human, but God, the One also giving His Holy Spirit to you.

But You Know From God To Love One Another. We Exhort You To Abound Even More

⁹But concerning brotherly-love, you have no need that anyone should be writing to you. For you yourselves are God-taught so-that you might be loving one another. ¹⁰For indeed you are doing it toward all the brothers in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, to be abounding more, ¹¹and to be ambitious^[o] to be quiet^[p], and to be doing^[q] your own things and working with your own hands just as we commanded you, ¹²in order that you may walk properly toward the ones outside and may have need of nothing^[r].

Do Not Grieve Over The Dead In Christ. We Will Rise Together To Be With Him Forever

¹³And we do not want you to be unaware, brothers, concerning the ones falling-asleep^[s], in-order-that you may not grieve as indeed the others— the ones not having a hope. ¹⁴For if we believe that Jesus died and rose-up, so also^[t] God will bring with Him the ones having fallen asleep through^[u] Jesus. ¹⁵For we say this to you by the word of the Lord, that we— the ones living, the ones remaining^[v] until the coming of the Lord— will in-no-way precede the ones having fallen asleep. ¹⁶Because^[w] the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shouted-command^[x], with a voice of an archangel^[y], and with a trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise-up first. ¹⁷Then we— the ones living, the ones remaining— will be snatched-up^[z] together^[aa] with them in the clouds^[ab] to meet the Lord in the air. And so we shall always be with the Lord. ¹⁸So then, be encouraging^[ac] one another with these words.

Footnotes

1 Thessalonians 4:3 Or, sanctification.
1 Thessalonians 4:3 Or, keeping away, avoiding, holding back.
1 Thessalonians 4:4 Or, get, obtain, procure, gain.
1 Thessalonians 4:4 That is, his own body. In this case, Paul is referring to self-mastery with regard to sexual desires, and ‘each of you’ means ‘all of you’ all the time. Or, ‘acquire his own vessel’; that is, his own wife. In this case Paul is referring to premarital purity, and ‘each of you’ means ‘the unmarried’.
1 Thessalonians 4:5 That is, proceeding from; or, belonging to (lustful passion).
1 Thessalonians 4:5 Or, lust.
1 Thessalonians 4:6 There is a grammatical change here from the previous two ‘that’ statements. Paul may be restating the previous two points from a different perspective. Or, this may indicate he is changing to a new subject, business relations.
1 Thessalonians 4:6 Or, transgress.
1 Thessalonians 4:6 Or, take advantage of, cheat, defraud.
1 Thessalonians 4:6 That is, fellow-believer, whether male or female.
1 Thessalonians 4:6 That is, this matter of sexual relations; or, the matter of business.
1 Thessalonians 4:7 That is, for the purpose of.
1 Thessalonians 4:7 That is, in connection with, in the sphere of.
1 Thessalonians 4:8 Or, Therefore-for-that-very-reason.
1 Thessalonians 4:11 Or, make it your ambition.
1 Thessalonians 4:11 Or, lead a quiet life.
1 Thessalonians 4:11 Or, tending-to your own affairs.
1 Thessalonians 4:12 Or, no one.
1 Thessalonians 4:13 That is, dying. Or, sleeping; that is, dead.
1 Thessalonians 4:14 That is, so also we believe that.
1 Thessalonians 4:14 Or, by means of. That is, having entered into God’s rest through what Jesus has done. Or, so also through Jesus God will bring with Him the ones having fallen-asleep.
1 Thessalonians 4:15 Or, being left behind. That is, remaining alive at that time.
1 Thessalonians 4:16 Or, asleep; that. In this case, this is a second thing Paul ‘says’ to them.
1 Thessalonians 4:16 Or, signal-call.
1 Thessalonians 4:16 That is, ruling or chief angel.
1 Thessalonians 4:17 Our word ‘rapture’ comes from the Latin translation of this word.
1 Thessalonians 4:17 Or, at the same time.
1 Thessalonians 4:17 Or, in clouds, on clouds.
1 Thessalonians 4:18 Or, comforting.

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