| 4:1 | Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort [you] by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and to please God, [so] ye would abound more and more. |
| 4:2 | For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. |
| 4:3 | For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from immorality: |
| 4:4 | That each one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; |
| 4:5 | Not in the lust of passion, even as the Gentiles who know not God: |
| 4:6 | That no [man] go beyond and defraud his brother in [any] matter: because the Lord [is] the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. |
| 4:7 | For God hath not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness. |
| 4:8 | He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given to us his Holy Spirit. |
| 4:9 | But concerning brotherly love ye need not that I write to you: for ye yourselves are taught by God to love one another. |
| 4:10 | And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more; |
| 4:11 | And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; |
| 4:12 | That ye may walk honestly toward them that are outside [the church], and [that] ye may have need of nothing. |
| 4:13 | But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them who are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others who have no hope. |
| 4:14 | For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also who sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. |
| 4:15 | For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive [and] remain to the coming of the Lord shall not precede them who are asleep. |
| 4:16 | For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: |
| 4:17 | Then we who 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. |
| 4:18 | Therefore comfort one another with these words. |
1 Thessalonians 4 - Revised Webster Version
