1 Thessalonians 4
A Life Pleasing to God
Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you areceived from us bhow you ought to walk and cto please God, just as you are doing, that you ddo so more and more. 2 For ayou know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. 3 For this is the will of God, ayour sanctification: bthat you abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each one of you know how to control his own abody in holiness and bhonor, 5 not in athe passion of lust blike the Gentiles cwho do not know God; 6 that no one transgress and awrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is ban avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you. 7 For aGod has not called us for bimpurity, but in holiness. 8 Therefore awhoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, bwho gives his Holy Spirit to you.
9 Now concerning abrotherly love byou have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been ctaught by God dto love one another, 10 for that indeed is what ayou are doing to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to bdo this more and more, 11 and to aspire ato live quietly, and bto mind your own affairs, and cto work with your hands, as we instructed you, 12 so that you may awalk properly before boutsiders and be dependent on no one.
The Coming of the Lord
13 But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, athat you may not grieve as others do bwho have no hope. 14 For asince we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him bthose who have fallen asleep. 15 For this we declare to you aby a word from the Lord, that bwe who are alive, who are left until cthe coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. 16 For athe Lord himself will descend bfrom heaven cwith a cry of command, with the voice of dan archangel, and ewith the sound of the trumpet of God. And fthe dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we who are alive, who are left, will be acaught up together with them bin the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so cwe will always be with the Lord. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.
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