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1 Thessalonians 4

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¹ Additionally then, brothers and sisters, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received instruction from us on how you should live and please God — as you are doing [1] — do this even more.

² For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

³ For this is God’s will, ⓘ your sanctification: ⓙ that you keep away ⓚ from sexual immorality,

⁴ that each of you knows how to control his own body [2] in holiness and honor,

⁵ not with lustful passions, ⓛ like the Gentiles, who don’t know God.

⁶ This means one must not transgress against and take advantage ⓜ of a brother or sister in this manner, because the Lord is an avenger of all these offenses, as we also previously told and warned you.

⁷ For God has not called us to impurity ⓝ but to live in holiness.

⁸ Consequently, anyone who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit. ⓐ

⁹ About brotherly love: You don’t need me to write you because you yourselves are taught by God ⓑ to love one another. ⓒ

¹⁰ In fact, you are doing this toward all the brothers and sisters in the entire region of Macedonia. ⓓ But we encourage you, brothers and sisters, to do this even more,

¹¹ to seek to lead a quiet life, ⓔ to mind your own business, [3] and to work ⓕ with your own hands, as we commanded you,

¹² so that you may behave properly ⓖ in the presence of outsiders and not be dependent on anyone. [4] ⓗ

¹³ We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, concerning those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who have no hope. ⓘ

¹⁴ For if we believe that Jesus died and rose ⓙ again, ⓚ in the same way, through Jesus, ⓛ God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.

¹⁵ For we say this to you by a word from the Lord: ⓜ We who are still alive at the Lord’s coming ⓝ will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. ⓐ

¹⁶ For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, [5] ⓑ with the archangel’s ⓒ voice, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ ⓓ will rise first.

¹⁷ Then ⓔ we who are still alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds ⓕ to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.

¹⁸ Therefore encourage [6] one another with these words.

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1	Additionally then, brothers and sisters, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received instruction from us on how you should live and please God — as you are doing [1] — do this even more.
2	For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
3	For this is God’s will, ⓘ your sanctification: ⓙ that you keep away ⓚ from sexual immorality,
4	that each of you knows how to control his own body [2] in holiness and honor,
5	not with lustful passions, ⓛ like the Gentiles, who don’t know God.
6	This means one must not transgress against and take advantage ⓜ of a brother or sister in this manner, because the Lord is an avenger of all these offenses, as we also previously told and warned you.
7	For God has not called us to impurity ⓝ but to live in holiness.
8	Consequently, anyone who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit. ⓐ
9	About brotherly love: You don’t need me to write you because you yourselves are taught by God ⓑ to love one another. ⓒ
10	In fact, you are doing this toward all the brothers and sisters in the entire region of Macedonia. ⓓ But we encourage you, brothers and sisters, to do this even more,
11	to seek to lead a quiet life, ⓔ to mind your own business, [3] and to work ⓕ with your own hands, as we commanded you,
12	so that you may behave properly ⓖ in the presence of outsiders and not be dependent on anyone. [4] ⓗ
13	We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, concerning those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who have no hope. ⓘ
14	For if we believe that Jesus died and rose ⓙ again, ⓚ in the same way, through Jesus, ⓛ God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
15	For we say this to you by a word from the Lord: ⓜ We who are still alive at the Lord’s coming ⓝ will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep. ⓐ
16	For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, [5] ⓑ with the archangel’s ⓒ voice, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ ⓓ will rise first.
17	Then ⓔ we who are still alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds ⓕ to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord.
18	Therefore encourage [6] one another with these words.

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^{1 Thessalonians 4:3 [19]} Gen. 15:6; also in verse 22

^{1 Thessalonians 4:8 [20]} Psalm 32:1,2

^{1 Thessalonians 4:17 [21]} Gen. 17:5

^{1 Thessalonians 4:18 [22]} Gen. 15:5

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