The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Thessalonians 04
1 Finally then, brothers, we beg and
exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you
received from us how you ought to walk
and to please God, that you abound more
and more.
2 For you know what instructions we
gave you through the Lord Jesus.
3 For this is the will of God:
your sanctification, that you
abstain from sexual immorality,
4 that each one of you know how
to control his own body† in
sanctification and honor,
5 not in the passion of lust, even as the
Gentiles who don’t know God,
6 that no one should take advantage of
and wrong a brother or sister in this
matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all
these things, as also we forewarned you
and testified.
7 For God called us not for uncleanness,
but in sanctification.
8 Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t
reject man, but God, who has also given his
Holy Spirit to you.
9 But concerning brotherly love, you
have noneed that one write to you. For you
yourselves are taught by God to love one
another,
10 for indeed you do it toward all the
brothers who are in all Macedonia. But
we exhort you, brothers, that you abound
more and more;
11 and that you make it your ambition to
lead a quiet life, and to do your own
business, and to work with your own hands,
even as we instructed you,
12 that you may walk properly toward
those who are outside, and may have need
of nothing.
13 But we don’t want you to be ignorant,
brothers, concerning those who have
fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like
the rest, who have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and
rose again, evenso God will bring withhim
those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.
15 For this we tell you by the word of the
Lord, that we who are alive, who are left
until the coming ofthe Lord, will in no way
precede those who have fallen asleep.
16 For the Lord him self will descend from
heaven with a shout, with the voice of the
archangel and with God’s trumpet. The
dead in Christ will rise first,
17 then we who are alive, who are left,
will be caught up together with them in the
clouds to meet the Lord in the air. So we
will be with the Lord forever.
18 Therefore comfort one another with
these words.