1 Thessalonians 4 — LSV
4Verse 1As to the rest, then, brothers, we request, and call on you in the Lord Jesus, as you received from us how it is necessary for you to walk and to please God, that you may abound the more,Verse 2for you have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus;Verse 3for this is the will of God—your sanctification: that you abstain from the whoredom,Verse 4that each of you know to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,Verse 5not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,Verse 6that no one goes beyond and defrauds his brother in the matter, because the LORD [is] an avenger of all these, as we also spoke to you before and testified,Verse 7for God did not call us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.Verse 8He, therefore, who is despising, does not despise man, but God, who also gave His Holy Spirit to us.Verse 9And concerning the brotherly love, you have no need of [my] writing to you, for you yourselves are God-taught to love one another,Verse 10for you do it also to all the brothers who [are] in all Macedonia; and we call on you, brothers, to abound still more,Verse 11and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,Verse 12that you may walk properly to those outside, and may have lack of nothing.Verse 13And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that you may not sorrow, as also the rest who have no hope,Verse 14for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also God will bring with Him those asleep through Jesus,Verse 15for we say this to you in the word of the LORD, that we who are living—who remain over to the coming of the LORD—may not precede those asleep,Verse 16because the LORD Himself, with a shout, with the voice of a chief-messenger, and with the trumpet of God, will come down from Heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first;Verse 17then we who are living, who are remaining over, will be snatched up together with them in [the] clouds to meet the LORD in [the] air, and so we will always be with the LORD;Verse 18so, then, comfort one another with these words.