1 Thessalonians 4 - UPDV Updated Bible Version

^4:1 Finally then, brothers, we urge and exhort you⁺ in the Lord Jesus, that, as you⁺ received of us how you⁺ ought to walk and to please God, even as you⁺ do walk, that you⁺ abound more and more.
^4:2 For you⁺ know what charge we gave you⁺ through the Lord Jesus.
^4:3 For this is the will of God, [even] your⁺ sanctification, that you⁺ abstain from fornication;
^4:4 that each of you⁺ know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
^4:5 not by immoral sexual passion, even as the Gentiles who don't know God;
^4:6 that no man transgress and take advantage of his brother in this matter: because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you⁺ and testified.
^4:7 For God called us not for impurity, but in sanctification.
^4:8 Therefore he who rejects, rejects not man, but God, who also gives his Holy Spirit to you⁺.
^4:9 But concerning love of the brothers you⁺ have no need that one write to you⁺: for you⁺ yourselves are taught of God to love one another;
^4:10 for indeed you⁺ do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you⁺, brothers, that you⁺ abound more and more;
^4:11 and that you⁺ make it your aim to be quiet, and to participate in your⁺ own [things], and to work with your⁺ own hands, even as we charged you⁺;
^4:12 that you⁺ may walk becomingly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.
^4:13 But we would not have you⁺ ignorant, brothers, concerning those who fall asleep; that you⁺ do not sorrow, even as the rest, who have no hope.
^4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so those also who have fallen asleep 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, who are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.
^4:16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ will rise first;
^4:17 then we who are alive, who are left, will together with them be caught up 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, Chapter 4