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 you know, exhorting each one of you, as a father of his own children, and comforting you,

I exhort you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, your reasonable service:

But working together we indeed intreat you not to have received the grace of God in vain:

But I Paul exhort you through the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who before your face am indeed humble among you, but being absent am bold towards you:

Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to walk worthily of the calling with which you are called,

on account of the divine love, I the more exhort you, being such as Paul the aged, and now also the prisoner of Jesus Christ.

But I exhort you, brethren, to receive the word of consolation: for I have indeed written unto you briefly.

Ye have

and that you aspire to be quiet, and to prosecute your own employments, and work with your hands, as we proclaimed unto you;

for I did not shrink to declare unto you all the counsel of God.

For I received this from the Lord, which I have also delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus, the night in which he was betrayed, took bread,

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

Only live worthily of the gospel of Christ: in order that, whether coming and seeing you or being absent, I hear those things concerning you, that you are standing in one spirit, with one soul contending for the faith of the gospel;

Therefore as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk about in him,

For indeed when we were with you, we proclaimed this to you, that if any one does not wish to work, let him not eat.

Ye ought

and testifying, that you walk worthily of God, who calls you into his own kingdom and glory.

To please

But those being in depravity are not able to please God.

and he not fashioned after this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Therefore be not unwise, but understand whatsoever is the will of the Lord.

that you may walk worthily of the Lord in all loyalty, in every good work bearing fruit, and increasing in the perfect knowledge of God.

but without faith it is impossible to please him: for it behooves the one coming unto God to believe that he is, and he is a rewarder unto them who seek him out.

But do not forget benefaction and fellowship: for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

and whatsoever we may ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and do those things pleasing before him.

So ye

for you indeed are doing the same thing unto all the brethren in all Macedonia. And we exhort you, brethren, that you abound more and more;

Every branch in me not producing fruit, He takes it away: and every one producing fruit, He purifies it, that it may produce more fruit.

So, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

And I pray this, that your divine love may yet more and more abound in perfect knowledge and all understanding;

but there is one thing, indeed forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those which are before, I press toward the goal unto the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

We ought always to give thanks to God for you, brethren, as it is worthy, because your faith increases, and the divine love of each one of you all towards one another abounds more and more;

And in harmony with this same thing also, add to your faith heroism; and to heroism, knowledge;

but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and unto the day of the age.

General references

in holiness and righteousness before Him all the days of our life.

For our exhortation was not from delusion, nor from impurity, nor in guile: