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

Luke 1:75

1 Thessalonians 2:3

Bible References

We

as ye know how we dealt with each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging you, and testifying,

I beseech you, therefore, brethren, through the mercies of God, to present, your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, well pleasing to God, which is your rational service;

And, working together with Him, we also entreat you that ye receive not the grace of God in vain

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

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

yet for love's sake I rather exhort, being such a one as Paul an aged man, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus:

But I exhort you, brethren, bear with the word of exhortation; for, indeed, I wrote to you in few words.

Ye have

and to make it your aim to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we charged you;

for I shrank not 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, in the same night in which He was being betrayed, took bread;

Now I make known to you, brethren, the Gospel which I proclaimed to you, which also ye received, in which also ye have been standing;

Only demean yourselves in a manner worthy of the Gospel of Christ; that, whether coming and seeing you, or being absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye are standing fast in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith of the Gospel;

As, therefore, ye received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him;

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

Ye ought

that ye should walk worthily of God, Who is calling you into His own Kingdom and glory.

To please

and those who are in the flesh cannot please God.

and he not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and well-pleasing and perfect will of God.

For this reason, be not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

to walk worthily of the Lord to all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and growing in the knowledge of God;

And, apart from faith, it is impossible to please Him; for he that comes to God must believe that He is, and that He becomes a rewarder to those who seek after Him.

But, of well-doing, and contributing, be not forgetful; for with such sacrifices God is well-pleased.

and whatsoever we ask we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments, and do the things that are pleasing before Him.

So ye

and, in fact, ye do it to all the brethren who are in all Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound yet more;

Every branch in Me that bears not fruit, He taketh it away: and every one that bears fruit, He cleanseth it, that it may bear more fruit.

Therefore, my beloved brethren, become steadfast, immovable, abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

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

I am pressing on toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

We ought to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because your faith is growing exceedingly, and the love of each one of you abounds toward one another;

and, even for this very reason, adding all diligence, in your faith supply virtue; and in virtue, knowledge;

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

General references

in holiness and righteousness before Him all our days.

For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile;