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 indeed you know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father his children,

I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

As co-workers with him, we beseech you, that you receive not the grace of God in vain:

Now I, the same Paul, who, when present among you, am timid, but when absent, am bold toward you, entreat you, by the mildness and gentleness of Christ;

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called;

yet, on account of my love, I rather exhort you, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner on account of Jesus Christ.

I beseech you, brethren, bear with my word of exhortation: for I have written to you in few words.

Ye have

and that you earnestly endeavor to live quietly, and that you attend to your own business, and work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

For I have not shunned to declare to you the whole counsel of God.

For I received from the Lord that which I also delivered to you: That the Lord Jesus, on the night in which he was delivered up, took bread;

But I make known to you, brethren, the gospel that I preached to you, which also you received, in which also you stand,

Only conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of the Christ, that, whether I come and see you, or be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one soul striving together for the faith of the gospel,

As, therefore, you received Christ Jesus our Lord, so walk in him,

For when we were with you, we gave you this commandment, that if any one will not work, neither let him eat.

Ye ought

that you should walk in a manner worthy of God, who has called you to his own kingdom and glory.

To please

Those, then, who are in the flesh, can not please God.

And be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may learn what the will of God is the good, and the acceptable, and the perfect.

Wherefore, be not ignorant, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

so that you may walk in a manner worthy of the Lord, in order to please him in all things, by means of every good work bringing forth fruit, and increasing in the knowledge, of God,

But without faith it is impossible to please him; for he that comes to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.

But forget not to do good, and to be liberal: 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

and indeed you do this to all the brethren that are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, that you abound in love more and more,

Every branch in me that bears no fruit, he takes away; and every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.

Therefore, my be loved brethren, be firm, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord; for you know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

I also pray for this, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and all understanding,

but one thing I do; forgetting the things which are behind, and reaching forward to those which are before, I press toward the goal, for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

We are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is right, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all toward each other abounds:

so, even for this very purpose, uniting to these things all diligence, add to your faith, virtue; and to virtue, knowledge;

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

General references

in holiness and righteousness before him, all our days.

For our exhortation arose not from deception, nor from uncleanness, nor was it with guile;