1 Thessalonians 4 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

Plea for Purity

The Resurrection and Christ’s Second Coming

1Th 4:1Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God;

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1Th 4:2for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

1Th 4:3

1Th 4:3For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality;

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1Th 4:4that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

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1Th 4:5not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God;

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1Th 4:6that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified.

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1Th 4:7For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness.

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1Th 4:8Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given[fn] us His Holy Spirit.

A Brotherly and Orderly Life

1Th 4:9

1Th 4:9But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another;

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1Th 4:10and indeed you do so toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, that you increase more and more;

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1Th 4:11that you also aspire to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,

1Th 4:12

1Th 4:12that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing.

The Comfort of Christ’s Coming

1Th 4:13

1Th 4:13But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, lest you sorrow as others who have no hope.

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1Th 4:14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.[fn]

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1Th 4:15For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep.

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1Th 4:16For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.

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1Th 4:17Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be with the Lord.

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1Th 4:18Therefore comfort one another with these words.

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NKJV Footnotes

(4:8)

NU-Text reads who also gives.

(4:14)

Or those who through Jesus sleep

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