1 Thessalonians 4

¹For the rest therefore, brethren, we desire and beseech you in our Lord Jesus, that as you have received of us how you ought to walk, and to please God, as also you do walk, that you abound more.

²For you know what precepts I have given to you by our Lord Jesus.

³For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from fornication,

⁴that every one may know to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour:

⁵not in the passion of lust, as also the Gentiles that know not God,

⁶and that no man over-go, nor circumvent his brother in business: because our Lord is revenger of all these things, as we have foretold you, and have testified.

⁷For God hath not called us into uncleanness, but into sanctification.

⁸Therefore he that despiseth these things, despiseth not man but God, who also hath given his holy Spirit in us.

⁹But concerning the charity of the Fraternity, we have no need to write to you: For yourselves have learned of God to love one another.

¹⁰Yea and you do it toward all the brethren in all Macedonia. But we desire you, brethren, that you abound more:

¹¹and that you employ your endeavour to be quiet, and that you do your own business, and work with your own hands, as we have commanded you:

¹²and that you walk honestly toward them that are without; and need nothing of any man's.

¹³And we will not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that sleep, that you be not sorrowful, as also others that have no hope.

¹⁴For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also God them that have slept by Jesus will bring with him.

¹⁵For this we say to you in the word of our Lord, that we which live, which are remaining in the advent of our Lord, shall not prevent them that have slept.

¹⁶For our Lord himself in commandment, and in the voice of an Archangel, & in the trumpet of God will descend from heaven: and the dead that are in Christ, shall rise again first.

¹⁷Then we that live, that are left, withal shall be taken up with them in the clouds to meet Christ, into the air, and so always we shall be with our Lord.

¹⁸Therefore comfort ye one another in these words.