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

You know how I was wont to treat each of you as a father treats his children,

I entreat you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies to Him as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable to God. This is your reasonable service of worship.

As a worker with him I beseech you not to receive the grace of God in vain.

Now I Paul, myself, appeal to you by the humble-heartedness and selflessness of Christ??aul who "in your presence is humble, but bold enough when he is absent"??2 I beseech you, and I say, do not make me show my boldness, when I come in the boldness with which I think I shall show my courage against some who think that I am walking on the low level of the flesh.

I summon you then, I the prisoner in the Lord, to live lives worthy of the calling to which you were called.

yet for love's sake, I rather beseech you, I, Paul, an old man, and now a prisoner for Christ Jesus!

But I entreat you, brothers, bear with my word of exhortation, for I have written to you briefly.

Ye have

Also, that you endeavor to live quietly and to mind your own business, and to work with your hands (as I charged you).

I never shrank from telling you the whole counsel of God.

For I passed on to you the account, which I myself received from the Lord; how the Lord Jesus, on the very night he was betrayed, took bread,

Now I am calling to your remembrance, brothers, the gospel which I preached to you, which you also received, and on which you have taken your stand,

Only do lead lives worthy of the gospel of Christ; so that whether I come to see you or hear reports concerning you in my absence, I may know that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one soul, enlisted in a common struggle for the faith of the gospel,

As then you have received Jesus Christ, your Lord, in him live your lives;

For indeed when I was with you, I used to charge you, "If any man will not work, he shall not eat."

Ye ought

exhorting and imploring and adjuring each one among you to lead a life worthy of the God who called you into his own kingdom and glory.

To please

And they who are earthly minded cannot please God.

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

For this reason do not be thoughtless, but learn to know what the Lord's will is.

that you may walk worthy of the Lord in every kind of pleasing; that you may be fruitful in every kind of good work, and may increase in the knowledge of God;

now without faith it is impossible to please him; for he who comes to God must believe that he is, and that he ever rewards those who are seeking.

And forget not to be kind and liberal; for with that sort of sacrifice God is well pleased.

and whatever we ask we are receiving from him, because we are keeping his commandments and doing those things that are pleasing in his sight.

So ye

As indeed you do love all the brothers in Macedonia. But I exhort you, brothers, to abound in this yet more.

"He cuts back any of my branches that bear no fruit, and prunes every fruit-bearing branch, that it may bear more.

So, my brothers beloved, stand firm, immovable, always abounding in work for the Lord, because you know that your toil is not fruitless in the Lord.

And it is my prayer that your love may abound yet more and more in intelligence and insight

I am ever pressing on toward the goal, for the prize of God's heavenward call in Christ Jesus.

I ought always to thank God for you, brothers, as is fitting because of the abundant growth of your faith and of the overflowing love with which every one of you is filled toward one another.

For this very reason do your best to add to your faith manliness, and to manliness knowledge,

But grow continually in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and unto the Day of Eternity, Amen.

General references

"In holiness and righteousness before him All our days.

For my preaching was not grounded on a delusion, or on impure motives, on in deceit.