1 Thessalonians 4:1

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1 Thessalonians 4:1

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Summary

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.

We

Hebrews 13:22

Ye have

2 Thessalonians 3:10

Ye ought

1 Thessalonians 2:12

To please

1 John 3:22

So ye

General references

1 Thessalonians 2:3

Bible References

We

As you know, we exhorted, comforted, and implored every one of you, as a father does his own children,

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service.

Working together, we entreat also that you not receive the grace of God in vain,

Now I Paul, myself, entreat you by the humility and gentleness of Christ; I who in your presence am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

yet for love's sake I rather beg, being such a one as Paul, the aged, but also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

But I exhort you, brothers, endure the word of exhortation, for I have written to you in few words.

Ye have

and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

for I didn't shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread.

Now I declare to you, brothers, the Good News which I preached to you, which also you received, in which you also stand,

Only let your way of life be worthy of the Good News of Christ, that, whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your state, that you stand firm in one spirit, with one soul striving for the faith of the Good News;

As therefore you received Christ Jesus, the Lord, walk in him,

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this: "If anyone will not work, neither let him eat."

Ye ought

to the end that you should walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own Kingdom and glory.

To please

Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

Don't be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Therefore don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

Without faith it is impossible to be well pleasing to him, for he who comes to God must believe that he exists, and that he is a rewarder of those who seek him.

But don't forget to be doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

and whatever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments and do the things that are pleasing in his sight.

So ye

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;

Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.

They will still bring forth fruit in old age. They will be full of sap and green,

But the path of the righteous is like the dawning light, that shines more and more until the perfect day.

Every branch in me that doesn't bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the Lord's work, because you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

This I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all discernment;

I press on toward the goal for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds;

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence; and in moral excellence, knowledge;

But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

General references

Enoch walked with God after he became the father of Methuselah three hundred years, and became the father of sons and daughters.

"Therefore you shall keep my commandments, and do them. I am Yahweh.

Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, even as Yahweh my God commanded me, that you should do so in the midst of the land where you go in to possess it.

You shall observe to do all the commandment which I command you this day, that you may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which Yahweh swore to your fathers.

You shall observe to do all the statutes and the ordinances which I set before you this day.

In holiness and righteousness before him all the days of our life.

For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in deception.