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| 4:1 | As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more, |
| 4:2 | for ye have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus, |
| 4:3 | for this is the will of God -- your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom, |
| 4:4 | that each of you know his own vessel to possess in sanctification and honour, |
| 4:5 | not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God, |
| 4:6 | that no one go beyond and defraud in the matter his brother, because an avenger `is' the Lord of all these, as also we spake before to you and testified, |
| 4:7 | for God did not call us on uncleanness, but in sanctification; |
| 4:8 | he, therefore, who is despising -- doth not despise man, but God, who also did give His Holy Spirit to us. |
| 4:9 | And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of `my' writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another, |
| 4:10 | for ye do it also to all the brethren who `are' in all Macedonia; and we call upon you, brethren, to abound still more, |
| 4:11 | and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you, |
| 4:12 | that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing. |
| 4:13 | And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope, |
| 4:14 | for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also God those asleep through Jesus he will bring with him, |
| 4:15 | for this to you we say in the word of the Lord, that we who are living -- who do remain over to the presence of the Lord -- may not precede those asleep, |
| 4:16 | because the Lord himself, in a shout, in the voice of a chief-messenger, and in the trump of God, shall come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first, |
| 4:17 | then we who are living, who are remaining over, together with them shall be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in air, and so always with the Lord we shall be; |
| 4:18 | so, then, comfort ye one another in these words. |
| 4:1 | Further more we beseche you brethren and exhorte you in the lorde Iesus that ye increace more and more euen as ye have receaved of vs how ye ought to walke and to please god. |
| 4:2 | Ye remember what commaundmetes we gave you in oure lorde Iesu Christ. |
| 4:3 | For this is the will of god even that ye shuld be holy and that ye shuld abstayne from fornicacion |
| 4:4 | that every one of you shuld knowe how to kepe his vessell in holynes and honoure |
| 4:5 | and not in the lust of concupiscence as do the hethen which knowe not god |
| 4:6 | that no man goo to farre and defraude his brother in bargayninge: because the lorde is a venger of all suche thinges as we tolde you before tyme and testified. |
| 4:7 | For god hath not called vs vnto vnclennes: but vnto holynes. |
| 4:8 | He therfore that despiseth despiseth not man but God which hath sent his holy sprete amonge you. |
| 4:9 | But as touchynge brotherly love ye nede not that I wryte vnto you. For ye are taught of God to love on another. |
| 4:10 | Ye and that thinge verely ye do vnto all the brethre which are thorow oute all Macedonia. We beseche you brethren that ye encreace more and more |
| 4:11 | and that ye studye to be quyet and to medle with youre awne busynes and to worke with youre awne hondes as we commaunded you: |
| 4:12 | that ye maye behave youre selves honestly towarde them that are with out and that nothinge be lackynge vnto you. |
| 4:13 | I wolde not brethren have you ignoraut concerninge them which are fallen aslepe that ye sorowe not as other do which have no hope. |
| 4:14 | For yf we beleve that Iesus dyed and rose agayne: even so them also which slepe by IeIesus will God brynge agayne with him. |
| 4:15 | And this saye we vnto you in the worde of the Lorde that we which live and are remayninge in the comminge of the Lorde shall not come yerre they which slepe. |
| 4:16 | For the Lorde him selfe shall descende fro heve with a showte and the voyce of the archangell and trompe of God. And the deed in Christe shall aryse fyrst: |
| 4:17 | then shall we which live and remayne be caught vp with them also in the cloudes to mete the Lorde in ye ayer. And so shall we ever be with the Lorde. |
| 4:18 | Wherfore coforte youre selves one another with these wordes |
| 4:1 | Fvrthermore we beseke you brethren and exhorte you in the LORDE Iesus, that ye increace more and more, euen as ye haue receaued of vs how ye oughte to walke and to please God. |
| 4:2 | For ye knowe what commaundementes we gaue you by oure LORDE Iesus Christ. |
| 4:3 | For this is the will of God, euen youre sanctifienge, that ye shulde absteyne from whordome, |
| 4:4 | yt euery one of you shulde knowe how to kepe his vessell in holynes and honoure, |
| 4:5 | & not in the lust of concupiscence, as the Heythen which knowe not God. |
| 4:6 | And that no man go to farre, ner defraude his brother in bargayninge. For the LORDE is the auenger of all soch thinges, as we haue sayde & testified vnto you afore tyme. |
| 4:7 | For God hath not called vs to vnclennesse, but vnto holynes. |
| 4:8 | He therfore that despyseth, despyseth not man, but God, which hath geuen his holy sprete in to you. |
| 4:9 | But as touchinge brotherly loue, ye nede not that I wryte vnto you, for ye youre selues are taught of God to loue one another: |
| 4:10 | yee and that thinge ye do vnto all the brethre, which are thorow out all Macedonia. But we beseke you brethren that ye increace yet more and more, |
| 4:11 | and that ye study to be quyete, and to medle with youre awne busynesse, and to worke with youre awne hades, as we commaunded you, |
| 4:12 | that ye maye walke honestly towarde the that are without, and that nothinge be lackynge vnto you. |
| 4:13 | We wolde not brethren that ye shulde be ignoraunt concernynge them which are fallen a slepe, that ye sorowe not as other do which haue no hope. |
| 4:14 | For yf we beleue that Iesus dyed and rose agayne, euen so the also which slepe by Iesus, shal God brynge with him. |
| 4:15 | For this we saye vnto you in the worde of the LORDE, that we which lyue and are remaynynge in the comynge of the LORDE, shal not come yer they which slepe. |
| 4:16 | For the LORDE himselfe shal come downe fro heauen with a shoute and voyce of ye Archangell and with the trompe of God, and the deed in Christ shal aryse first: |
| 4:17 | then shal we which lyue and remayne, be caught vp wt them also in the cloudes, to mete the LORDE in the ayre, and so shal we euer be with the LORDE. |
| 4:18 | Wherfore comforte youre selues one another with these wordes. |
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