1 Thessalonians 4
4:1The rest then, brethren, we ask you and appeal in the Lord Jesus, as you received from us the thing how it was necessary for you to walk and to please God, that you should abound more.
4:2For you know what exhortations we gave to you through the Lord Jesus.
4:3For this is the will of God -- your sanctification, for you to be at a distance from harlotry.
4:4For each of you to know his own vessel, to possess in sanctification and honor,
4:5not in passion of desire, as even the nations, the ones not knowing God;
4:6to not pass over and to overabound in the matter of his brother; for the one punishing is the Lord concerning all these things, as also we foretold to you, and we testified.
4:7For God called us not unto uncleanness, but in sanctification.
4:8Accordingly the one disregarding, disregards not man, but God, the one also having given his holy spirit to us.
4:9And concerning brotherly affection you have no need for me to write to you; for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.
4:10For also you do this towards all the brethren, the ones in all Macedonia! But we appeal to you, brethren, to abound more,
4:11and to strive earnestly to be quiet, and to do your own things, and to work with your own hands, as we exhorted to you;
4:12that you should walk decently towards the ones outside, and no one should have need.
4:13But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning the ones having gone to sleep, that you do not fret as even the rest, the ones not having hope.
4:14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose up, so also God will bring with him the ones having gone to sleep through Jesus.
4:15For this to you we say by word of the Lord, that we, the ones living, the ones remaining at the arrival of the Lord, in no way should anticipate the ones having gone to sleep.
4:16For the Lord himself in a word of command by the voice of an archangel, and with a trumpet of God, shall descend from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise up first.
4:17Thereupon we the living, the ones remaining, together with them shall be seized in clouds, for meeting the Lord in the air, and thus at all times with the Lord we shall be.
4:18So then comfort one another by these words!