Holy Name KJV - 1769 King James Version

1 Thessalonians 4

1 He exhorteth them to go on forward in all manner of godliness, 6 to live holily and justly, 9 to love one another, 11 and quietly to follow their own business: 13 and last of all to sorrow moderately for the dead. 15 And unto this last exhortation is annexed a brief description of the resurrection, and second coming of Christ to judgment.

 4:1 ¶ Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort [you] by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of 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 fornication:

 4:4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

 4:5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

 4:6 That no [man] go beyond and defraud his brother in [any] matter: because that the Lord [is] the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

 4:7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

 4:8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.

 4:9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

 4:10 And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which 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 without, and [that] ye may have lack of nothing.

 4:13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

 4:15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive [and] remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

 4:16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

 4:17 Then we which 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 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.