Prima lettera ai Tessalonicesi 4

NOVA VULGATA	DOUAI-RHEIMS
1 De cetero ergo, fratres, rogamus vos et obsecramus in Domino Iesu, ut —quemadmodum accepistis a nobis quomodo vos oporteat ambulare et placere Deo,sicut et ambulatis — ut abundetis magis.	1 For the rest therefore, brethren, we pray and beseech you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us, how you ought to walk, and to please God, so also you would walk, that you may abound the more.
2 Scitis enim, quae praeceptadederimus vobis per Dominum Iesum.	2 For you know what precepts I have given to you by the Lord Jesus.
3 Haec est enim voluntas Dei, sanctificatiovestra,	3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that you should abstain from fornication;
4 ut abstineatis a fornicatione; ut sciat unusquisque vestrum suum vaspossidere in sanctificatione et honore,	4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour:
5 non in passione desiderii, sicut etgentes, quae ignorant Deum;	5 Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles that know not God:
6 ut ne quis supergrediatur neque circumveniat innegotio fratrem suum, quoniam vindex est Dominus de his omnibus, sicut etpraediximus vobis et testificati sumus.	6 And that no man overreach, nor circumvent his brother in business: because the Lord is the avenger of all these things, as we have told you before, and have testified.
7 Non enim vocavit nos Deus inimmunditiam sed in sanctificationem.	7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto sanctification.
8 Itaque, qui spernit, non hominem spernit sed Deum, qui etiam dat Spiritum suumSanctum in vos.	8 Therefore, he that despiseth these things, despiseth not man, but God, who also hath given his holy Spirit in us.
9 De caritate autem fraternitatis non necesse habetis, ut vobis scribam; ipsienim vos a Deo edocti estis, ut diligatis invicem;	9 But as touching the charity of brotherhood, we have no need to write to you: for yourselves have learned of God to love one another.
10 etenim facitis illud inomnes fratres in universa Macedonia. Rogamus autem vos, fratres, ut abundetismagis;	10 For indeed you do it towards all the brethren in all Macedonia. But we entreat you, brethren, that you abound more:
11 et operam detis, ut quieti sitis et ut vestrum negotium agatis etoperemini manibus vestris, sicut praecipimus vobis;	11 And that you use your endeavour to be quiet, and that you do your own business, and work with your own hands, as we commanded you: and that you walk honestly towards them that are without; and that you want nothing of any man's.
12 ut honeste ambuletis adeos, qui foris sunt, et nullius aliquid desideretis.	12 And we will not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that you be not sorrowful, even as others who have no hope.
13 Nolumus autem vos ignorare, fratres, de dormientibus, ut non contristeminisicut et ceteri, qui spem non habent.	13 For if we believe that Jesus died, and rose again; even so them who have slept through Jesus, will God bring with him.
14 Si enim credimus quod Iesus mortuus estet resurrexit, ita et Deus eos, qui dormierunt, per Iesum adducet cum eo.	14 For this we say unto you in the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them who have slept.
15 Hocenim vobis dicimus in verbo Domini, quia nos, qui vivimus, qui relinquimur inadventum Domini, non praeveniemus eos, qui dormierunt;	15 For the Lord himself shall come down from heaven with commandment, and with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead who are in Christ, shall rise first.
16 quoniam ipse Dominusin iussu, in voce archangeli et in tuba Dei descendet de caelo, et mortui, quiin Christo sunt, resurgent primi;	16 Then we who are alive, who are left, shall be taken up together with them in the clouds to meet Christ, into the air, and so shall we be always with the Lord.
17 deinde nos, qui vivimus, qui relinquimur,simul rapiemur cum illis in nubibus obviam Domino in aera, et sic semper cumDomino erimus.	17 Wherefore, comfort ye one another with these words.
18 Itaque consolamini invicem in verbis istis.