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

2 Peter 3:18

General references

Luke 1:75

1 Thessalonians 2:3

Bible References

We

as ye know how [we treated] every one of you, as a father doth his children, exhorting you, and admonishing, and conjuring you,

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

WE then as labourers with him, exhort you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain:

NOW I Paul myself exhort you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ, who, when present, am indeed lowly among you, but being absent, am bold towards you.

I THEN, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you, that ye walk worthy of the vocation with which ye are called,

I rather for love's sake entreat, being such as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner for Jesus Christ.

But I entreat you, brethren, suffer the word of exhortation; for I have written to you in few words.

Ye have

and that you make it your study to live peaceably, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we have enjoined you;

For I have concealed nothing, so as not repeatedly to declare to you the whole counsel of God.

For I received of the Lord what also I delivered to you, That the Lord Jesus, in the night in which he was betrayed, took a loaf:

NOW I make known unto you, brethren, the gospel which I have preached unto you, and which ye have received, in which also ye have stood fast;

Only conduct yourselves worthily as becometh the gospel of Christ; that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one soul wrestling together in the faith of the gospel;

As therefore ye have received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him:

For when we were with you, this we enjoined you, that if a man would not work, neither should he eat.

Ye ought

that ye should walk worthy of God, as calling you into his kingdom and glory.

To please

They then who are in the flesh, cannot please God.

And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renovation of your mind, that you may prove by experience what is the will of God, that is good, acceptable, and perfect.

Therefore be not unwise, but intelligent concerning what is the will of the Lord.

that ye may walk worthy of the Lord, well pleasing him in all things, in every good work fruitful, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

But without faith it is impossible to be acceptable; for he must believe, who cometh unto God, that he exists, and is a rewarder of those who diligently seek him.

But of beneficence, and liberal distribution, be not unmindful: for such sacrifices God accepts with delight.

And whatsoever we ask, we receive from him, because we keep his commandments, and do the things which are pleasing in his sight.

So ye

And indeed ye practise it towards all the brethren that are throughout Macedonia: but we conjure you, brethren, to abound more and more;

Every branch in me that beareth no fruit, he taketh it away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he pruneth it clean, that it may bring forth more fruit.

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

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

I press towards the mark for the prize of the divine calling from on high in Christ Jesus.

We are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, as it is fit, because your faith groweth exceedingly, and the love of every one of you all towards each other aboundeth:

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

General references

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

And our exhortation originated not from delusion, or impurity, or from guile;