1 Thessalonians 4
KJ3 Literal Translation — Chapter 4 of 5
Chapter Summary
1 He exhorts to godliness, 6 to live justly, 9 to love one another, 13 to sorrow moderately for the dead. 15 A description of the second coming.
Key Greek Words
People & Context
The Lord who died and rose, and whose coming gathers the living and the dead [4:14-17]
The One whose will is the believers' sanctification; will bring the sleeping ones with Jesus [4:3,14]
Timeline
Paul exhorts the Thessalonians to walk and please God, declaring that God's will is their sanctification, particularly to abstain from fornication and possess their vessel in honor.
1 Thessalonians 4:1-5Paul warns against defrauding a brother, for the Lord is the avenger in such matters, and God has not called believers to impurity but to sanctification.
1 Thessalonians 4:6-8Paul affirms that the Thessalonians are taught by God to love one another and exhorts them to aspire to live quietly, attend to their own affairs, and work with their hands.
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