^4:1 Therefore, furthermore brethren, we request and are encouraging you^° in the Lord Jesus, just-as you^° received from us how it is essential for you^° to walk and to please God, in-order-that you^° might abound even more. ^4:2 For^* you^° know what commands we gave you^° through the Lord Jesus. ^4:3 For^* this is the will of God, your^° holiness, for you^° to abstain from fornication, ^4:4 for each of you^° to know how to procure his own vessel in holiness and honor, ^4:5 not in the passion of lust, just-as also the Gentiles who do not know God; ^4:6 and not to go-beyond-limits and take-advantage of his brother in the matter, because the Lord is an avenger concerning all these things, just-as we also foretold to you^° and thoroughly testified. ^4:7 For^* God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness. ^4:8 Therefore, the one rejecting this is not rejecting man, but God, who also gave his Holy Spirit to you^°.

      ^4:9 Now concerning brotherly-love, you^° have no need for someone to write to you^°; for^* you^° yourselves are taught by God, ^*that^* you^° should love^* one another; ^4:10 for^* you^° are also practicing it toward all the brethren, the ones who are in the whole of Macedonia. But brethren, we encourage you^° to abound even more, ^4:11 and to make it your^° aim to be living quiet lives and to do^* your^° own things, and to work with your^° own hands (just-as we commanded you^°), ^4:12 in-order-that you^° may walk decently toward the ones outside, and may have need of nothing.

      {1Th 4:13-17 & Mat 24:27, 24:29-31 & Mar 13:24-37 & Luk 21:25-28 & Acts 1:11 & 2Th 1:7-9 & 1Co 15:51-15:58 & Rev 1:7 Second Coming.}

      ^4:13 But brethren, we do not wish you^° to be ignorant concerning the ones who have fallen-asleep; in-order-that you^° may not also be sorrowful like the rest who have no hope. ^4:14 For^* if we believe that Jesus died and then rose^* up, so the ones who fell-asleep through Jesus, God will also be bringing^* together-with him. ^4:15 For^* this we are saying to you^° in the word of the Lord, We, the ones living, the ones who are left at the presence of the Lord, should never attain heaven before the ones who fell-asleep. ^4:16 Because the Lord himself will be descending from heaven, in a commanding yell, in the voice of the archangel and at the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be rising^* up first; ^4:17 thereafter we, the ones living, the ones who are left, will be seized at the same-time together-with them in the clouds, to the encounter of the Lord in the air, and so we will always be together-with the Lord. ^4:18 So-then, encourage^° one another in these words.