New American Standard Bible 1995

1 Thessalonians 4:1-9

1 1Finally then, 2brethren, we request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us instruction as to how you ought to 3 4walk and 5please God (just as you actually do 6walk), that you 7excel still more. 2For you know what commandments we gave you 8by the authority of the Lord Jesus. 3For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you 9abstain from 10sexual immorality; 4that 11each of you know how to 12possess his own 13 14vessel in sanctification and 15honor, 5not in 16 17lustful passion, like the Gentiles who 18do not know God; 6and that no man transgress and 19defraud his brother 20in the matter because 21the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also 22told you before and solemnly warned you. 7For 23God has not called us for 24the purpose of impurity, but 25in sanctification. 8So, he who rejects this is not rejecting man but the God who 26gives His Holy Spirit to you.

9Now as to the 27love of the brethren, you 28have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are 29taught by God to love one another;

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Notes

1. 1 Thessalonians 4:1 2 Cor 13:11; 2 Thess 3:1 ↩
2. 1 Thessalonians 4:1 Gal 6:1; 1 Thess 5:12; 2 Thess 1:3; 2:1; 3:1, 13 ↩
3. 1 Thessalonians 4:1 Or conduct yourselves ↩
4. 1 Thessalonians 4:1 Eph 4:1 ↩
5. 1 Thessalonians 4:1 2 Cor 5:9 ↩
6. 1 Thessalonians 4:1 Or conduct yourselves ↩
7. 1 Thessalonians 4:1 Phil 1:9; 1 Thess 3:12; 4:10; 2 Thess 1:3 ↩
8. 1 Thessalonians 4:2 Lit through the Lord ↩
9. 1 Thessalonians 4:3 1 Cor 6:18 ↩
10. 1 Thessalonians 4:3 Or fornication ↩
11. 1 Thessalonians 4:4 1 Cor 7:2, 9 ↩
12. 1 Thessalonians 4:4 Or acquire ↩
13. 1 Thessalonians 4:4 I.e. body; or wife ↩
14. 1 Thessalonians 4:4 2 Cor 4:7; 1 Pet 3:7 ↩
15. 1 Thessalonians 4:4 Rom 1:24 ↩
16. 1 Thessalonians 4:5 Lit passion of lust ↩
17. 1 Thessalonians 4:5 Rom 1:26 ↩
18. 1 Thessalonians 4:5 Gal 4:8 ↩
19. 1 Thessalonians 4:6 1 Cor 6:8 ↩
20. 1 Thessalonians 4:6 2 Cor 7:11 ↩
21. 1 Thessalonians 4:6 Rom 12:19; 13:4; Heb 13:4 ↩
22. 1 Thessalonians 4:6 Luke 16:28; 1 Thess 2:11; Heb 2:6 ↩
23. 1 Thessalonians 4:7 1 Pet 1:15 ↩
24. 1 Thessalonians 4:7 1 Thess 2:3 ↩
25. 1 Thessalonians 4:7 I.e. in the state or sphere of ↩
26. 1 Thessalonians 4:8 Rom 5:5; 2 Cor 1:22; Gal 4:6; 1 John 3:24 ↩
27. 1 Thessalonians 4:9 John 13:34; Rom 12:10 ↩
28. 1 Thessalonians 4:9 2 Cor 9:1; 1 Thess 5:1 ↩
29. 1 Thessalonians 4:9 Jer 31:33f; John 6:45; 1 John 2:27 ↩

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