4:1 Finally then, brothers, we urge and exhort you+ in the Lord Jesus, that, as you+ received of us how you+ ought to walk and to please God, even as you+ do walk, that you+ abound more and more.
4:2 For you+ know what charge we gave you+ through the Lord Jesus.
4:3 For this is the will of God, [even] your+ sanctification, that you+ abstain from fornication;
4:4 that each of you+ know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
4:5 not by immoral sexual passion, even as the Gentiles who don't know God;
4:6 that no man transgress and take advantage of his brother in this matter: because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you+ and testified.
4:7 For God called us not for impurity, but in sanctification.
4:8 Therefore he who rejects, rejects not man, but God, who also gives his Holy Spirit to you+.
4:9 But concerning love of the brothers you+ have no need that one write to you+: for you+ yourselves are taught of God to love one another;
4:10 for indeed you+ do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you+, brothers, that you+ abound more and more;
4:11 and that you+ make it your aim to be quiet, and to participate in your+ own [things], and to work with your+ own hands, even as we charged you+;
4:12 that you+ may walk becomingly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.
4:13 But we would not have you+ ignorant, brothers, concerning those who fall asleep; that you+ do not sorrow, even as the rest, who have no hope.
4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so those also who have fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
4:15 For this we say to you+ by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.
4:16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ will rise first;
4:17 then we who are alive, who are left, will together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
4:18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.