1 Thessalonians 4

1 Thessalonians 4:8

He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who also hath given unto us his Holy Spirit.

He, therefore, that despiseth these wholesome and Apostolic counsels and commands, despiseth not man, but God himself; who hath given us his Holy Spirit, and hath indited these things unto us.

1 Thessalonians 4:9

But as touching brotherly lore ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to lore one another.

I need not give this literal charge to you, of loving one another, as if it were a thing as yet unperformed of you; for God hath already written these real characters of love in your hearts, and hath enabled you to give good proof of this Christian charity to each other.

1 Thessalonians 4:11

And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands.

And that ye do earnestly affect and studiously endeavour for peace and quietness; and, laying aside all curious intermeddling with other men’s business, be careful of your own.

1 Thessalonians 4:12

That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.

Carry yourselves in an honest and seemly fashion among the Gentiles; not giving them occasion of scorn, by your baseness and idle want: but labour in your vocations, so as that ye may have lack of nothing; nor be too much beholden to others’ courtesy.

1 Thessalonians 4:13

Concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

Concerning your dead friends, that ye sorrow not for their loss, in an over passionate and immoderate fashion and measure, like to Gentiles, that apprehend not the hope of a Resurrection.

1 Thessalonians 4:15

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.

For this we deliver unto you, as from the express charge of God, that those, which shall be found alive, at the Second Coming of the Lord to Judgment, shall not prevent them, which are before dead in their graves, so as to be glorified before them.

1 Thessalonians 4:16

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.

For the Lord himself shall personally descend from heaven, with a mighty noise: even with the loud and powerful voice of an Archangel, which shall be as the trumpet of God, to summon the world before the tribunal of Christ; and then, they, that are dead in the faith of Christ, shall rise, ere the full consummation of the living.