1 Thessalonians 4

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
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.	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 .
2 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.	2 You are well aware of the instructions we gave you on the authority of the Lord Jesus.
3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:	3 God wil s you al to be holy. He wants you to keep away from sexual immorality,
4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;	4 and each one of you to know how to control his body in a way that is holy and honourable,
5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:	5 not giving way to selfish lust like the nations who do not acknowledge God.
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.	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.
7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.	7 God cal ed us to be holy, not to be immoral;
8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.	8 in other words, anyone who rejects this is rejecting not human authority, but God, who gives you hisHoly Spirit.
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.	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,
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;	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
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;	11 and to make a point of living quietly, attending to your own business and earning your living, just as wetold you to,
12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.	12 so that you may earn the respect of outsiders and not be dependent on anyone.
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.	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.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.	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.
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.	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.
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:	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,
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.	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.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.	18 With such thoughts as these, then, you should encourage one another.