CHAP. IV.
He exhorts them to purity and
mutual charity: he treats
of the resurrection of the
dead.
1 For the rest, therefore,
brethren, we pray and beseech
you in the Lord Jesus,
that as you have received of
us, how you ought to walk,
and to please God, so also
you would walk, that you
may abound the more.
2 For you know what commandments
I have given to
you by the Lord Jesus.
3 For this is the will of
God, your sanctification: that
you 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 passion of
lust, like the Gentiles that
know not God:
6 And that no man overreach,
nor deceive his brother
in business: because the Lord
is the avenger of all such
things, as we have told you
before, and have testified.
7 For God hath not called
us to uncleanness, but to holiness.
8 He therefore that despiseth
these things, despiseth not
man, but God: who also hath
given his holy Spirit in us.
9 But as touching the charity
of brotherhood, we have
no need to write to you: for
yourselves have learned of
God to love another.
10 For indeed you do it
towards all the brethren in all
Macedonia. But we entreat
you, brethren, that you abound
more,
11 And that you use your
endeavour to be quiet, and
that you do your own business,
and work with your own
hands, as we commanded you:
and that you walk honestly
towards them that are without:
and that you want nothing
of any man's.
22 And we will not have
you ignorant, brethren, concerning
them that are asleep,
that you be not sorrowful,
even as others who have no
hope.
13 For if we believe that
Jesus died, and rose again,
even so them who have slept
through Jesus, will God
bring with him.
14 For this we say unto
you in the word of the Lord,
that we who are alive, who
remain unto the coming of
the Lord, shall not prevent
them who have slept.
15 For the Lord himself
shall come down from heaven
with commandment, and
with the voice of an Archangel,
and with the trumpet
-- --
of God: and the dead who
are in Christ, shall rise first.
16 Then we who are alive,
who are left, shall be caught
up together with them in the
clouds, to meet Christ in the
air, and so shall we be always
with the Lord.
17 Wherefore comfort ye
one another with these words.
Challoner [1752], THE NEW TESTAMENT OF Our LORD and SAVIOUR JESUS CHRIST. Translated out of the Latin Vulgat Diligently compared with the original Greek And first published by the English College of Rhemes, anno 1582. Newly revised, and corrected according to the Clementin Edition of the Scriptures. WITH ANNOTATIONS For clearing up modern Controversies in Religion, and other Difficulties of Holy Writ () [word count] [B12000].
