Thematic Bible
1 Thessalonians 4:1 (show verse)
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.
1 Thessalonians 4:2 (show verse)
For you know what commands we gave to you through the Lord Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 4:3 (show verse)
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: [that] you abstain from sexual immorality;
1 Thessalonians 4:4 (show verse)
[that] each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
1 Thessalonians 4:5 (show verse)
not in lustful passion, just as also the Gentiles who do not know God;
1 Thessalonians 4:6 (show verse)
not to transgress and to exploit his brother in the matter, because the Lord [is] the one who avenges concerning all these [things], just as also we told you beforehand and testified solemnly.
1 Thessalonians 4:7 (show verse)
For God did not call us to impurity, but in holiness.
1 Thessalonians 4:8 (show verse)
Therefore the one who rejects [this] [is] not rejecting man, but God, [who] also gives his Holy Spirit to you.
1 Thessalonians 4:9 (show verse)
But concerning brotherly love, I do not have need to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
1 Thessalonians 4:10 (show verse)
for indeed you are practicing it toward all the brothers in all of Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to progress even more,
1 Thessalonians 4:11 (show verse)
and to aspire to live a quiet life, and to attend to {your own business}, and to work with your hands, just as we commanded you,
1 Thessalonians 4:12 (show verse)
so that you may live decently toward those outside, and may have need of nothing.
1 Thessalonians 4:13 (show verse)
Now we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you will not grieve as also the rest, who have no hope.
1 Thessalonians 4:14 (show verse)
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose [again], thus also God will bring those who have fallen asleep through Jesus together with him.
1 Thessalonians 4:15 (show verse)
For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who remain until the Lord's coming, will not possibly precede those who have fallen asleep.
1 Thessalonians 4:16 (show verse)
For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.
1 Thessalonians 4:17 (show verse)
Then we who are alive, who remain, will be snatched away at the same time together with them in the clouds for a meeting with the Lord in the air, and thus we will be together with the Lord always.
1 Thessalonians 4:18 (show verse)
Therefore comfort one another with these words.