1 Thessalonians 4:1

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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

1 Thessalonians 2:3

Bible References

We

even as you know how we exhorted and comforted and testified to each one of you, as a father to his children,

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

But working together, we also call on you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

And I myself, Paul, beseech you by the meekness and gentleness of Christ; I, who indeed to look upon am lowly among you, but being absent am bold toward you.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the calling with which you are called,

rather through love I entreat, being such a one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

And I beseech you, brothers, allow the word of exhortation. For I have written a letter to you in few words.

Ye have

and that you try earnestly to be quiet and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,

For I did not keep back from declaring to you all the counsel of God.

For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took bread;

And, brothers, I declare to you the gospel which I preached to you, which also you have received, and in which you stand;

Only let your conduct be as becomes the gospel of Christ, so that whether I come and see you, or else am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, striving together with one mind for the faith of the gospel,

Therefore as you have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,

For even when we were with you, we commanded you this, that if anyone would not work, neither should he eat.

Ye ought

that you should walk worthy of God, who has called you to His kingdom and glory.

To please

So then they who are in the flesh cannot please God.

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, in order to prove by you what is that good and pleasing and perfect will of God.

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

that you might walk worthy of the Lord to all pleasing, being fruitful in every work and increasing in the knowledge of God,

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

But do not forget to do good and to share, for with such sacrifices God is well pleased.

And whatever we ask, we receive from Him, because we keep His commandments and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.

So ye

And indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we beseech you, brothers, that you abound more and more,

The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he who has clean hands adds strength.

They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flowering;

But the path of the just is as the shining light, that shines more and more to the perfect day.

Every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, He takes away. And every one that bears fruit, He prunes it so that it may bring forth more fruit.

So that, my beloved brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not without fruit in the Lord.

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

I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.

We are bound to thank God always for you, my brothers, as it is right, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each one of you abounds toward one another;

But also in this very thing, bringing in all diligence, filling out your faith with virtue, and with virtue, knowledge;

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

General references

And Enoch walked with God three hundred years after he fathered Methuselah. And he fathered sons and daughters.

And you shall keep My commandments, and do them. I am Jehovah.

Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as Jehovah my God commanded me, so that you should do so in the land where you go to possess it.

All the commandments which I command you this day shall you be careful to do, that you may live and multiply and go in and possess the land which Jehovah swore to your fathers.

And you shall be careful to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you today.

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

For our exhortation to you was not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile,