vw - 1Thessalonians:4-5

vw@1Thessalonians:4:1 @ Finally 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;

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

vw@1Thessalonians:4:3 @ For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual perversion;

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

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

vw@1Thessalonians:4:6 @ that 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.

vw@1Thessalonians:4:7 @ For God did not call us to impurity, but in sanctification.

vw@1Thessalonians:4:8 @ Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit.

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

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

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

vw@1Thessalonians:4:12 @ that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may have need of nothing.

vw@1Thessalonians:4:13 @ But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that you sorrow not as others who have no hope.

vw@1Thessalonians:4:14 @ For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.

vw@1Thessalonians:4:15 @ For 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.

vw@1Thessalonians:4:16 @ For the Lord Himself will descend from Heaven with a shouted command, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.

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

vw@1Thessalonians:4:18 @ Therefore encourage one another with these words.

vw@1Thessalonians:5:1 @ But concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you.

vw@1Thessalonians:5:2 @ For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.

vw@1Thessalonians:5:3 @ For when they say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes upon them, as labor pains upon a pregnant woman. And they shall by no means escape.

vw@1Thessalonians:5:4 @ But you, brethren, are not in darkness, so that this Day should overtake you as a thief.

vw@1Thessalonians:5:5 @ You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of darkness.

vw@1Thessalonians:5:6 @ Therefore let us not sleep, as others do, but let us watch and be sober.

vw@1Thessalonians:5:7 @ For those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who get drunk are drunk at night.

vw@1Thessalonians:5:8 @ But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation.

vw@1Thessalonians:5:9 @ For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

vw@1Thessalonians:5:10 @ who died for us, that whether we watch or sleep, we should live together with Him.

vw@1Thessalonians:5:11 @ Therefore encourage each other and build up one another, just as you also are doing.

vw@1Thessalonians:5:12 @ And we urge you, brethren, to recognize those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord and admonish you,

vw@1Thessalonians:5:13 @ and to esteem them very highly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.

vw@1Thessalonians:5:14 @ Now we exhort you, brethren, warn those who are unruly, comfort the faint-hearted, uphold the weak, be longsuffering towards all.

vw@1Thessalonians:5:15 @ See that no one renders evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good both for yourselves and for all.

vw@1Thessalonians:5:16 @ Rejoice always,

vw@1Thessalonians:5:17 @ pray without ceasing,

vw@1Thessalonians:5:18 @ in everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

vw@1Thessalonians:5:19 @ Do not quench the Spirit.

vw@1Thessalonians:5:20 @ Do not despise prophecies.

vw@1Thessalonians:5:21 @ But test all things; hold fast what is good.

vw@1Thessalonians:5:22 @ Abstain from every form of evil.

vw@1Thessalonians:5:23 @ Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

vw@1Thessalonians:5:24 @ He who calls you is faithful, who also will do it.

vw@1Thessalonians:5:25 @ Brethren, pray for us.

vw@1Thessalonians:5:26 @ Greet all the brethren with a holy kiss.

vw@1Thessalonians:5:27 @ I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read to all the holy brethren.

vw@1Thessalonians:5:28 @ The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.