1 Thessalonians 4

Plea for Purity

Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus ^athat you should abound more and more, ^bjust as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God; 2 for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
3 For this is ^athe will of God, ^byour sanctification: ^cthat you should abstain from sexual immorality; 4 ^athat each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 ^anot in passion of lust, ^blike the Gentiles ^cwho do not know God; 6 that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord ^ais the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified. 7 For God did not call us to uncleanness, ^abut in holiness. 8 ^aTherefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, ^bwho¹ has also given us His Holy Spirit.

A Brotherly and Orderly Life

9 But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for ^ayou yourselves are taught by God ^bto love one another; 10 and indeed you do so toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, ^athat you increase more and more; 11 that you also aspire to lead a quiet life, ^ato mind your own business, and ^bto work with your own hands, as we commanded you, 12 ^athat you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing.

The Comfort of Christ’s Coming

13 But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen ¹asleep, lest you sorrow ^aas others ^bwho have no hope. 14 For ^aif we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him ^bthose who ¹sleep in Jesus.
15 For this we say to you ^aby the word of the Lord, that ^bwe who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are ¹asleep. 16 For ^athe Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with ^bthe trumpet of God. ^cAnd the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 ^aThen we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them ^bin the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus ^cwe shall always be with the Lord. 18 ^aTherefore comfort one another with these words.

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