Parallel Verses
Goodspeed New Testament
Now, brothers, we ask and entreat you, in the name of the Lord Jesus, to live as you learned from us that you must live, to please God??s indeed you are doing, only do it more and more.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
Finally then, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us how you must walk and please God—as you are doing
International Standard Version
Now then, brothers, you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God, as in fact you are doing. We ask and encourage you in the Lord to do so even more.
A Conservative Version
Finally therefore, brothers, we ask you, and summon in Lord Jesus, that just as ye received from us how ye ought to walk and to please God, that ye may abound more.
American Standard Version
Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk, --that ye abound more and more.
Amplified
Finally, believers, we ask and admonish you in the Lord Jesus, that you follow the instruction that you received from us about how you ought to walk and please God (just as you are actually doing) and that you excel even more and more [pursuing a life of purpose and living in a way that expresses gratitude to God for your salvation].
An Understandable Version
Finally then, brothers, we request and urge you, in [the fellowship of] the Lord, that you should live [dedicated lives] and please God. Just as you people received direction from us [on doing this], see that you [continue to] do it more and more.
Anderson New Testament
Finally, then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you, by our Lord Jesus, that as you learned from us how you ought to walk and please God, you would abound more and more.
Bible in Basic English
And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more.
Common New Testament
Finally, brethren, we request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God, just as you are doing, you do so more and more.
Daniel Mace New Testament
Finally, my brethren, we intreat and conjure you by the Lord Jesus Christ, to observe the instructions we gave you about your religious conduct, and to make continual progress therein.
Darby Translation
For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.
Godbey New Testament
Finally therefore, brethren, we pray you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how it behooves you to walk about and to please God, as you do indeed walk about, in order that you may abound more and more.
John Wesley New Testament
It remaineth then, brethren, that we beseech and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, that ye abound therein more and more.
Julia Smith Translation
Therefore as to the rest, brethren we ask you, and beseech in the Lord Jesus, as ye received from us how ye must walk and please God, that ye may more abound.
King James 2000
Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as you have received of us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more and more.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Finally therefore, brothers, we ask you and appeal to [you] in the Lord Jesus that, just as you have received from us how it is necessary for you to live and to please God, just as indeed you are living, that you progress even more.
Modern King James verseion
For the rest, then, my brothers, we beseech you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you have received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more and more.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Furthermore, we beseech you brethren, and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that ye increase more and more, even as ye have received of us, how ye ought to walk and to please God.
Moffatt New Testament
Finally, brothers, we beg and beseech you in the Lord Jesus to follow our instructions about the way you are to live so as to satisfy God; you are leading that life, but you are to excel in it still further.
Montgomery New Testament
Finally then, my brothers, I continue to beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you learned of me how to walk so as to please God??nd you are actually doing so??hat you abound in it yet more and more.
NET Bible
Finally then, brothers and sisters, we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received instruction from us about how you must live and please God (as you are in fact living) that you do so more and more.
New Heart English Bible
Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to live and to please God, even as you are living, that you excel more and more.
Noyes New Testament
Furthermore then, brethren, we beseech you, and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received from us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye are walking, ye would abound still more;
Sawyer New Testament
FINALLY, therefore, brothers, we beseech and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, as you have received from us how you ought to walk and please God, that you abound still more.
The Emphasized Bible
For the rest, brethren, we request and exhort you, in our Lord Jesus, that, even as ye received from us, how ye must needs walk and please God, - even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
FINALLY, brethren, we beseech you therefore, and conjure you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk, and please God, so ye would abound more and more.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Further, Brothers, we beg and exhort you in the name of our Lord Jesus to carry out more fully than ever--as indeed you are already doing--all that you have heard from us as to what your daily life must be, if it is to please God.
Webster
Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
Weymouth New Testament
Moreover, brethren, as you learnt from our lips the lives which you ought to live, and do live, so as to please God, we beg and exhort you in the name of the Lord Jesus to live them more and more truly.
Williams New Testament
Now, brothers, we ask and beg you, in the face of our union with the Lord Jesus, as you once received from us how you ought to live so as to please God -- as indeed you are living -- to continue to live this life better and better.
World English Bible
Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
Worrell New Testament
Finally, then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received from us how ye ought to walk, and to please God??ven as ye also are walking??hat ye abound more and more;
Worsley New Testament
As to what remains therefore, my brethren, we intreat and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received instructions from us, how ye ought to walk and to please God, ye would abound therein more and more.
Youngs Literal Translation
As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,
Themes
Being Devoted to God » Should be » Abounding
Christian conduct » Abounding in the work of the lord
divine Favour » The possession of, characterized as pleasing God » The Christian duty
God » The possession of, characterized as pleasing God » The Christian duty
God » Pleasing of » The Christian duty
Topics
Interlinear
Loipon
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
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Parakaleo
Paralambano
References
Hastings
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Thessalonians 4:1
Images 1 Thessalonians 4:1
Prayers for 1 Thessalonians 4:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
Appeal For Continuing Sanctification
1 Now, brothers, we ask and entreat you, in the name of the Lord Jesus, to live as you learned from us that you must live, to please God??s indeed you are doing, only do it more and more. 2 For you remember what instructions we gave you on the authority of the Lord Jesus.
Phrases
Cross References
Ephesians 4:1
So I, the prisoner for the Lord's sake, appeal to you to live lives worthy of the summons you have received;
Colossians 1:10
so that the lives you live may be worthy of your Master and wholly pleasing to him, and you may be fruitful in all kinds of good deeds, and may grow into fuller knowledge of God.
2 Thessalonians 1:3
We always have to thank God for you, brothers, as it is right that we should, because your faith is growing so wonderfully and the love of every one of you for one another is increasing.
Philippians 1:9
And it is my prayer that your love may grow richer and richer in knowledge and perfect insight,
Colossians 2:6
So just as you once accepted the Christ, Jesus, as your Lord, you must live in vital union with him.
2 Thessalonians 2:1
As to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, brothers, and our assembling to meet him, we beg you
John 15:2
Any branch of mine that does not bear fruit he trims away, and he prunes every branch that bears fruit, to make it bear more.
Acts 20:27
for I have not shrunk from letting you know God's purpose without reserve.
Romans 8:8
Those who are physical cannot please God.
Romans 12:1-2
I appeal to you, therefore, brothers, by this mercy of God, to offer your bodies in a living sacrifice that will be holy and acceptable to God; that is your rational worship.
1 Corinthians 11:23
For I myself received from the Lord the account that I passed on to you, that the Lord Jesus the night he was betrayed took some bread
1 Corinthians 15:1
Now I want to remind you, brothers, of the form in which I presented to you the good news I brought, which you accepted and have stood by,
2 Corinthians 5:9
So whether I am at home or away from it, it is my ambition to please him.
2 Corinthians 6:1
As God's fellow-worker, I appeal to you, too, not to accept the favor of God and then waste it.
2 Corinthians 10:1
I appeal to you personally, by the gentleness and forbearance of Christ??he Paul who is so humble when face to face with you, but so bold in dealing with you when he is far away!
2 Corinthians 13:11
Now brothers, goodbye! Be what you ought to be, listen to my appeal, agree with one another, live in peace, and God the source of love and peace will be with you.
Ephesians 4:20
That is not the way you have been taught what Christ means,
Ephesians 5:17
So do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.
Philippians 1:27
Whatever happens, show yourselves citizens worthy of the good news of the Christ, so that whether I come and see you or am kept away and only hear news of you, I may know that you are standing firm with one spirit, one purpose, fighting side by side for faith in the good news.
Philippians 3:14
I am pressing toward the goal, for the prize to which God through Christ Jesus calls us upward.
1 Thessalonians 2:11-12
You know how, like a father with his children, we used to urge, encourage, and implore you
1 Thessalonians 3:12
May the Lord make your love for one another and for all men wide and full like my love for you,
1 Thessalonians 4:2
For you remember what instructions we gave you on the authority of the Lord Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 4:10-12
and you are doing it to all the brothers all over Macedonia. But we do entreat you, brothers, to surpass yourselves
2 Thessalonians 3:1
Now, brothers, pray for us, that the Lord's message may spread rapidly and gloriously as it did among you,
2 Thessalonians 3:10-12
When I was with you, I gave you this rule: "If anyone refuses to work, give him nothing to eat!"
1 Timothy 5:21
I charge you before God and Christ Jesus and the chosen angels to observe these rules without any discrimination, and to be perfectly impartial.
1 Timothy 6:13-14
Before God who maintains all life, and before Christ Jesus who in testifying before Pontius Pilate made his great profession, I charge you
Hebrews 11:6
but without faith it is impossible to please him; for whoever would approach God must have faith in his existence and in his willingness to reward those who try to find him.
Hebrews 13:16
But do not forget to be helpful and generous, for that is the kind of sacrifice that pleases God.
Hebrews 13:22
I beg you brothers, to listen patiently to this appeal, for I have written you but briefly.
2 Peter 1:5-10
For this very reason make every effort to supplement your faith with goodness, goodness with knowledge,
2 Peter 3:18
You must grow in the blessing and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Glory to him now and forever.
1 John 3:22
and we obtain from him whatever we ask for, because we are obeying his commands and doing the things that please him.
2 Timothy 4:1
I charge you in the sight of God and Christ Jesus who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom,