Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

For the rest, then, my brothers, we beseech you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you have received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more and more.

New American Standard Bible

Finally then, brethren, we request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us instruction as to how you ought to walk and please God (just as you actually do walk), that you excel still more.

King James Version

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.

Holman Bible

Finally then, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us how you must walk and please God—as you are doing—do so even more.

International Standard Version

Now then, brothers, you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God, as in fact you are doing. We ask and encourage you in the Lord to do so even more.

A Conservative Version

Finally therefore, brothers, we ask you, and summon in Lord Jesus, that just as ye received from us how ye ought to walk and to please God, that ye may abound more.

American Standard Version

Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk, --that ye abound more and more.

Amplified

Finally, believers, we ask and admonish you in the Lord Jesus, that you follow the instruction that you received from us about how you ought to walk and please God (just as you are actually doing) and that you excel even more and more [pursuing a life of purpose and living in a way that expresses gratitude to God for your salvation].

An Understandable Version

Finally then, brothers, we request and urge you, in [the fellowship of] the Lord, that you should live [dedicated lives] and please God. Just as you people received direction from us [on doing this], see that you [continue to] do it more and more.

Anderson New Testament

Finally, then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you, by our Lord Jesus, that as you learned from us how you ought to walk and please God, you would abound more and more.

Bible in Basic English

And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more.

Common New Testament

Finally, brethren, we request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God, just as you are doing, you do so more and more.

Daniel Mace New Testament

Finally, my brethren, we intreat and conjure you by the Lord Jesus Christ, to observe the instructions we gave you about your religious conduct, and to make continual progress therein.

Darby Translation

For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.

Godbey New Testament

Finally therefore, brethren, we pray you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how it behooves you to walk about and to please God, as you do indeed walk about, in order that you may abound more and more.

Goodspeed New Testament

Now, brothers, we ask and entreat you, in the name of the Lord Jesus, to live as you learned from us that you must live, to please God??s indeed you are doing, only do it more and more.

John Wesley New Testament

It remaineth then, brethren, that we beseech and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, that ye abound therein more and more.

Julia Smith Translation

Therefore as to the rest, brethren we ask you, and beseech in the Lord Jesus, as ye received from us how ye must walk and please God, that ye may more abound.

King James 2000

Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as you have received of us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more and more.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Finally therefore, brothers, we ask you and appeal to [you] in the Lord Jesus that, just as you have received from us how it is necessary for you to live and to please God, just as indeed you are living, that you progress even more.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Furthermore, we beseech you brethren, and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that ye increase more and more, even as ye have received of us, how ye ought to walk and to please God.

Moffatt New Testament

Finally, brothers, we beg and beseech you in the Lord Jesus to follow our instructions about the way you are to live so as to satisfy God; you are leading that life, but you are to excel in it still further.

Montgomery New Testament

Finally then, my brothers, I continue to beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you learned of me how to walk so as to please God??nd you are actually doing so??hat you abound in it yet more and more.

NET Bible

Finally then, brothers and sisters, we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received instruction from us about how you must live and please God (as you are in fact living) that you do so more and more.

New Heart English Bible

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to live and to please God, even as you are living, that you excel more and more.

Noyes New Testament

Furthermore then, brethren, we beseech you, and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received from us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye are walking, ye would abound still more;

Sawyer New Testament

FINALLY, therefore, brothers, we beseech and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, as you have received from us how you ought to walk and please God, that you abound still more.

The Emphasized Bible

For the rest, brethren, we request and exhort you, in our Lord Jesus, that, even as ye received from us, how ye must needs walk and please God, - even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

FINALLY, brethren, we beseech you therefore, and conjure you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk, and please God, so ye would abound more and more.

Twentieth Century New Testament

Further, Brothers, we beg and exhort you in the name of our Lord Jesus to carry out more fully than ever--as indeed you are already doing--all that you have heard from us as to what your daily life must be, if it is to please God.

Webster

Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.

Weymouth New Testament

Moreover, brethren, as you learnt from our lips the lives which you ought to live, and do live, so as to please God, we beg and exhort you in the name of the Lord Jesus to live them more and more truly.

Williams New Testament

Now, brothers, we ask and beg you, in the face of our union with the Lord Jesus, as you once received from us how you ought to live so as to please God -- as indeed you are living -- to continue to live this life better and better.

World English Bible

Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

Worrell New Testament

Finally, then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received from us how ye ought to walk, and to please God??ven as ye also are walking??hat ye abound more and more;

Worsley New Testament

As to what remains therefore, my brethren, we intreat and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received instructions from us, how ye ought to walk and to please God, ye would abound therein more and more.

Youngs Literal Translation

As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
λοιπόν 
Loipon 
Usage: 12

οὖν 
Oun 
therefore, then, so, and, now, wherefore, but, not tr,
Usage: 417

we beseech
ἐρωτάω 
Erotao 
Usage: 42

you
ὑμᾶς 
Humas 
you, ye, for your sakes Trans, not tr,
Usage: 314

G80
ἀδελφός 
Adelphos 
Usage: 302

and



and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0
Usage: 0

παρακαλέω 
Parakaleo 
Usage: 102

you by
ἐν 
En 
in, by, with, among, at, on, through,
Usage: 2128

the Lord
κύριος 
Kurios 
Usage: 643

Ἰησοῦς 
Iesous 
Usage: 969

that as
καθώς 
Kathos 
as, even as, according as, when, according to, how, as well as
Usage: 141

παραλαμβάνω 
Paralambano 
Usage: 41

of
παρά 
Para 
of, with, from, by ... side, at, than,
Usage: 145

us
ἡμῶν 
hemon 
our, us, we, not tr,
Usage: 388

how
πῶς 
Pos 
Usage: 65

ye
ὑμᾶς 
Humas 
you, ye, for your sakes Trans, not tr,
Usage: 314

δεῖ 
Dei 
Usage: 72

to walk
περιπατέω 
Peripateo 
walk, go, walk about, be occupied
Usage: 77

to please
ἀρέσκω 
Aresko 
Usage: 17

God
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151

so
ἵνα 
Hina 
that, to,
Usage: 472

περισσεύω 
Perisseuo 
Usage: 31

Devotionals

Devotionals about 1 Thessalonians 4:1

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Prayers for 1 Thessalonians 4:1

Context Readings

Appeal For Continuing Sanctification

1 For the rest, then, my brothers, we beseech you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as you have received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more and more. 2 For we know what commands we gave you by the Lord Jesus.


Cross References

Ephesians 4:1

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

Colossians 1:10

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

2 Thessalonians 1:3

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;

Philippians 1:9

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

Colossians 2:6

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

2 Thessalonians 2:1

Now we beseech you, my brothers, with regard to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to Him,

Job 17:9

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

Psalm 92:14

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

Proverbs 4:18

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

John 15:2

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.

Acts 20:27

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

Romans 8:8

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

Romans 12:1-2

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.

1 Corinthians 11:23

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;

1 Corinthians 15:1

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

1 Corinthians 15:58

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.

2 Corinthians 5:9

Therefore we are also laboring to be well-pleasing to Him, whether at home or away from home.

2 Corinthians 6:1

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

2 Corinthians 10:1

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.

2 Corinthians 13:11

Finally, brothers, rejoice. Perfect yourselves; encourage yourselves; mind the same thing; be at peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.

Ephesians 4:20

But you have not so learned Christ,

Ephesians 5:17

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

Philippians 1:27

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,

Philippians 3:14

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

1 Thessalonians 2:11-12

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

1 Thessalonians 3:12

And may the Lord make you to increase and abound in love toward one another and toward all, even as we also toward you,

1 Thessalonians 4:2

For we know what commands we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 4:10-12

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,

2 Thessalonians 3:1

Finally, my brothers, pray for us, that the Word of the Lord may have free course and be glorified, even as it also is with you.

2 Thessalonians 3:10-12

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

1 Timothy 5:21

I charge you before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that you guard these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

1 Timothy 6:13-14

I charge you before God (who makes all things alive) and in the sight of Christ Jesus (who witnessed the good confession to Pontius Pilate),

Hebrews 11:6

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.

Hebrews 13:16

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

Hebrews 13:22

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

2 Peter 1:5-10

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

2 Peter 3:18

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.

1 John 3:22

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

2 Timothy 4:1

Therefore I solemnly witness before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is going to judge the living and the dead according to His appearance and His kingdom,

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