First Thessalonians for the ALT Bible

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The First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians

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1Thessalonians 4

¹[As to the] rest [or, Finally] then brothers [and sisters], we ask and call on [or, plead with] you* in [the] Lord Jesus, just as you* received from us how it is necessary [for] you* to be walking about [fig., conducting yourselves] and to be pleasing God, so that you* shall be abounding [or, excelling] still more. ²For you* know what instructions we gave you* through [or, by [the authority of]] the Lord Jesus.

³For this is the will of God, your* sanctification: [for] you* yourselves to be abstaining from sexual sin [or, fornication], ⁴[for] each of you* to know how to be acquiring his own vessel [fig., wife; cp. 1Pet 3:7] in sanctification and honor, ⁵not in lustful passion of desire, just as also the Gentiles, the ones not knowing God, ⁶[so as] not to do wrong and take advantage of his brother [fig., fellow believer] in this matter, because the Lord [is the] avenger concerning all these [things], just as also we forewarned you* and solemnly testified. ⁷For God did not call us to impurity [or, immorality], but in sanctification. ⁸Therefore, the one rejecting [this] [or, regarding [this] as nothing] does not reject a person, but God, the One having also given His Holy Spirit to you*.

⁹Now concerning brotherly love [fig., affection for fellow-believers], you* have no need of [my] writing to you*, for you* yourselves are taught by God to be loving one another. ¹⁰For indeed you* do practice it toward all the brothers [and sisters], the [ones] in all Macedonia, but we call on [or, plead with] you*, brothers [and sisters], to be increasing [even] more ¹¹and to be ambitiously striving to be living a quiet life and to be doing your* own [things] [fig., to be minding your* own business] and to be working with your* own hands, just as we gave strict orders to [or, commanded] you*, ¹²so that you* shall be walking about [fig., conducting yourselves] properly toward the outsiders [fig., unbelievers] and have need of nothing.

¹³But we do not want you* to continue being unaware, brothers [and sisters], concerning the ones having fallen asleep [fig., who have died], so that you* shall not be sorrowing just as also the rest, the ones not having hope [or, confident expectation]. ¹⁴For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also God will bring the ones having fallen asleep through [fig., having died in] Jesus with Him.

¹⁵For this we say to you* by [the] word of [the] Lord, that we, the ones living, the ones being left to the Arrival of the Lord, by no means shall precede the ones having fallen asleep [fig., who have died]. ¹⁶Because the Lord Himself with a shout of command, with a voice of an archangel [or, a chief messenger [of the Lord]] and with [the] trumpet of God, will descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ will rise first, ¹⁷then we, the ones living, the ones being left, will be caught up together with them in [the] clouds to a meeting of the Lord in [the] air, and so we will always be with [the] Lord! ¹⁸Therefore, be comforting one another with these words.

Scripture taken from the Analytical-Literal Translation of the New Testament of the Holy Bible: Third Edition.
Copyright © 2007 by Gary F. Zeolla of Darkness to Light ministry (www.zeolla.org/christian).
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