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1 Thessalonians 4

New American Standard Bible 2020

Sanctification and Love

11Finally then, 2brothers and sisters, we request and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received instruction from us as to how you ought to 34walk and 5please God (just as you actually do 6walk), that you 7excel even more. 2For you know what instructions 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 sexual immorality; 4that 10each of you know how to 11possess his own 1213vessel in sanctification and 14honor, 5not in 1516lustful passion, like the Gentiles who 17do not know God; 6and that no one violate the rights and 18take advantage of his brother or sister 19in the matter, because 20the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also 21told you previously and solemnly warned you. 7For 22God has not called us for 2324impurity, but in sanctification. 8Therefore, the one who rejects this is not rejecting man, but the God who 25gives His Holy Spirit to you.

9Now as to the 26love of the brothers and sisters, you 27have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are 28taught by God to love one another; 10for indeed 29you practice it toward all the brothers and sisters who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers and sisters, to 30excel even more, 11and to make it your ambition 31to lead a quiet life and 32attend to your own business and 33work with your hands, just as we instructed you, 12so that you will 3435behave properly toward 36outsiders and 3738not be in any need.

Those Who Died in Christ

13But 39we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about those who 4041are asleep, so that you will not grieve as indeed 42the rest of mankind do, who have 43no hope. 14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose from the dead, 44so also God will bring with Him 45those who have fallen asleep 46through Jesus. 15For we say this to you 47by the word of the Lord, that 48we who are alive 49and remain until 50the coming of the Lord will not precede 51those who have fallen asleep. 16For the Lord 52Himself 53will descend from heaven with a 5455shout, with the voice of 56the archangel and with the 57trumpet of God, and 58the dead in Christ will rise first. 17Then 59we who are alive, who remain, will be 60caught up together with them 61in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always 62be with the Lord. 18Therefore, 63comfort one another with these words.

Notes

  1. 1. 1 Thessalonians 4:1 2 Cor 13:11; 2 Thess 3:1 ↩
  2. 2. 1 Thessalonians 4:1 Gal 6:1; 1 Thess 5:12; 2 Thess 1:3; 2:1; 3:1, 13 ↩
  3. 3. 1 Thessalonians 4:1 Or conduct yourselves ↩
  4. 4. 1 Thessalonians 4:1 Eph 4:1 ↩
  5. 5. 1 Thessalonians 4:1 2 Cor 5:9 ↩
  6. 6. 1 Thessalonians 4:1 Or conduct yourselves ↩
  7. 7. 1 Thessalonians 4:1 Phil 1:9; 1 Thess 3:12; 4:10; 2 Thess 1:3 ↩
  8. 8. 1 Thessalonians 4:2 Lit through the Lord ↩
  9. 9. 1 Thessalonians 4:3 1 Cor 6:18 ↩
  10. 10. 1 Thessalonians 4:4 1 Cor 7:2, 9 ↩
  11. 11. 1 Thessalonians 4:4 Or acquire ↩
  12. 12. 1 Thessalonians 4:4 I.e., body; or wife ↩
  13. 13. 1 Thessalonians 4:4 2 Cor 4:7; 1 Pet 3:7 ↩
  14. 14. 1 Thessalonians 4:4 Rom 1:24 ↩
  15. 15. 1 Thessalonians 4:5 Lit passion of lust ↩
  16. 16. 1 Thessalonians 4:5 Rom 1:26 ↩
  17. 17. 1 Thessalonians 4:5 Gal 4:8 ↩
  18. 18. 1 Thessalonians 4:6 1 Cor 6:8 ↩
  19. 19. 1 Thessalonians 4:6 2 Cor 7:11 ↩
  20. 20. 1 Thessalonians 4:6 Rom 12:19; 13:4; Heb 13:4 ↩
  21. 21. 1 Thessalonians 4:6 Luke 16:28; 1 Thess 2:11; Heb 2:6 ↩
  22. 22. 1 Thessalonians 4:7 1 Pet 1:15 ↩
  23. 23. 1 Thessalonians 4:7 I.e., moral corruption ↩
  24. 24. 1 Thessalonians 4:7 1 Thess 2:3 ↩
  25. 25. 1 Thessalonians 4:8 Rom 5:5; 2 Cor 1:22; Gal 4:6; 1 John 3:24 ↩
  26. 26. 1 Thessalonians 4:9 John 13:34; Rom 12:10 ↩
  27. 27. 1 Thessalonians 4:9 2 Cor 9:1; 1 Thess 5:1 ↩
  28. 28. 1 Thessalonians 4:9 Jer 31:33f; John 6:45; 1 John 2:27 ↩
  29. 29. 1 Thessalonians 4:10 1 Thess 1:7 ↩
  30. 30. 1 Thessalonians 4:10 1 Thess 3:12 ↩
  31. 31. 1 Thessalonians 4:11 2 Thess 3:12 ↩
  32. 32. 1 Thessalonians 4:11 1 Pet 4:15 ↩
  33. 33. 1 Thessalonians 4:11 Acts 18:3; Eph 4:28; 2 Thess 3:10-12 ↩
  34. 34. 1 Thessalonians 4:12 Lit walk ↩
  35. 35. 1 Thessalonians 4:12 Rom 13:13; Col 4:5 ↩
  36. 36. 1 Thessalonians 4:12 Mark 4:11 ↩
  37. 37. 1 Thessalonians 4:12 Lit have need of nothing ↩
  38. 38. 1 Thessalonians 4:12 Eph 4:28 ↩
  39. 39. 1 Thessalonians 4:13 Rom 1:13 ↩
  40. 40. 1 Thessalonians 4:13 I.e., have died ↩
  41. 41. 1 Thessalonians 4:13 Acts 7:60 ↩
  42. 42. 1 Thessalonians 4:13 Eph 2:3; 1 Thess 5:6 ↩
  43. 43. 1 Thessalonians 4:13 Eph 2:12 ↩
  44. 44. 1 Thessalonians 4:14 Rom 14:9; 2 Cor 4:14 ↩
  45. 45. 1 Thessalonians 4:14 1 Cor 15:18; 1 Thess 4:13 ↩
  46. 46. 1 Thessalonians 4:14 I.e., as believers ↩
  47. 47. 1 Thessalonians 4:15 1 Kin 13:17f; 20:35; 2 Cor 12:1; Gal 1:12 ↩
  48. 48. 1 Thessalonians 4:15 1 Cor 15:52; 1 Thess 5:10 ↩
  49. 49. 1 Thessalonians 4:15 Lit who ↩
  50. 50. 1 Thessalonians 4:15 1 Thess 2:19 ↩
  51. 51. 1 Thessalonians 4:15 1 Cor 15:18; 1 Thess 4:13 ↩
  52. 52. 1 Thessalonians 4:16 1 Thess 3:11 ↩
  53. 53. 1 Thessalonians 4:16 1 Thess 1:10; 2 Thess 1:7 ↩
  54. 54. 1 Thessalonians 4:16 Or cry of command ↩
  55. 55. 1 Thessalonians 4:16 Joel 2:11 ↩
  56. 56. 1 Thessalonians 4:16 Jude 9 ↩
  57. 57. 1 Thessalonians 4:16 Matt 24:31 ↩
  58. 58. 1 Thessalonians 4:16 1 Cor 15:23; 2 Thess 2:1; Rev 14:13 ↩
  59. 59. 1 Thessalonians 4:17 1 Cor 15:52; 1 Thess 5:10 ↩
  60. 60. 1 Thessalonians 4:17 2 Cor 12:2 ↩
  61. 61. 1 Thessalonians 4:17 Dan 7:13; Acts 1:9; Rev 11:12 ↩
  62. 62. 1 Thessalonians 4:17 John 12:26 ↩
  63. 63. 1 Thessalonians 4:18 Or encourage ↩

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