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title: 1 Thessalonians 4
slug: kjv-nt/1-thessalonians-4
createdAt: 2024-09-15T02:15:09.393Z
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**1 **Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort *you* by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, *so* ye would abound more and more. **2 **For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. **3 **For this is the will of God, *even* your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: **4 **That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; **5 **Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: **6 **That no *man* go beyond and defraud his brother in *any* matter: because that the Lord *is* the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. **7  **For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. **8 **He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.

**9 **But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. **10 **And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more; **11 **And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; **12 **That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and *that* ye may have lack of nothing.

**13 **But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. **14 **For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. **15 **For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive *and* remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. **16 **For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: **17 **Then we which are alive *and* remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. **18 **Wherefore comfort one another with these words.