1 Thessalonians 4

NEW JERUSALEM	KING JAMES BIBLE
1 Final y, brothers, we urge you and appeal to you in the Lord Jesus; we instructed you how to live in theway that pleases God, and you are so living; but make more progress stil .	1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
2 You are well aware of the instructions we gave you on the authority of the Lord Jesus.	2 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
3 God wil s you al to be holy. He wants you to keep away from sexual immorality,	3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
4 and each one of you to know how to control his body in a way that is holy and honourable,	4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
5 not giving way to selfish lust like the nations who do not acknowledge God.	5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
6 He wants nobody at al ever to sin by taking advantage of a brother in these matters; the Lord alwayspays back sins of that sort, as we told you before emphatical y.	6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
7 God cal ed us to be holy, not to be immoral;	7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
8 in other words, anyone who rejects this is rejecting not human authority, but God, who gives you hisHoly Spirit.	8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
9 As for brotherly love, there is no need to write to you about that, since you have yourselves learnt fromGod to love one another,	9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
10 and in fact this is how you treat al the brothers throughout the whole of Macedonia. However, we dourge you, brothers, to go on making even greater progress	10 And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;
11 and to make a point of living quietly, attending to your own business and earning your living, just as wetold you to,	11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
12 so that you may earn the respect of outsiders and not be dependent on anyone.	12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
13 We want you to be quite certain, brothers, about those who have fallen asleep, to make sure that youdo not grieve for them, as others do who have no hope.	13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 We believe that Jesus died and rose again, and that in the same way God wil bring with him thosewho have fallen asleep in Jesus.	14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
15 We can tell you this from the Lord's own teaching, that we who are stil alive for the Lord's coming willnot have any advantage over those who have fallen asleep.	15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
16 At the signal given by the voice of the Archangel and the trumpet of God, the Lord himself wil comedown from heaven; those who have died in Christ wil be the first to rise,	16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
17 and only after that shall we who remain alive be taken up in the clouds, together with them, to meetthe Lord in the air. This is the way we shall be with the Lord for ever.	17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18 With such thoughts as these, then, you should encourage one another.	18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.