KJ3 Literal Translation
1 Thessalonians 4
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.
1For the rest then, brothers, we beg you and we exhort in the Lord Jesus, even as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more.
2For you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
3For this is God’s will, your sanctification, for you to abstain from fornication,
4each one of you to know to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor,
5not in passion of lust, even as also the nations do, the ones not knowing God;
6not to go beyond and to take advantage of his brother in the matter, because the Lord is the avenger concerning all these, even as we told you before, and solemnly testified.
7For God did not call us to impurity, but in sanctification.
8Therefore, the one that despises does not despise man, but God, even the One giving His Holy Spirit to us.
9Now as to brotherly love, you have no need for me to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.
10For you also do it toward the brothers in all Macedonia. But, brothers, we exhort you to abound more.
11And eagerly aspiring to be quiet, and to do your own things, and to work with your own hands, as we enjoined you,
12that you may walk becomingly toward the ones outside, and that you may have need of nothing.
13But I do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about the ones having fallen asleep, that you not grieve, as the rest also, the ones not having hope.
14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, also God will also bring with Him all the ones having fallen asleep through Jesus.
15For we say this to you in the Word of the Lord, that we the living who remain to the coming of the Lord will not at all go before the ones having fallen asleep.
16Because the Lord Himself shall come down from Heaven with a commanding shout of an archangel’s voice, and with God’s trumpet. And the dead ones in Christ will rise again first.
17Then we who remain alive will be caught up together with them in the clouds to a meeting with the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.
18So, then, comfort each other with these words.
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