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1 Thessalonians 4 Mace New Testament
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<A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>that every one of you should take care to preserve the dignity of his <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>person unsullied by the vices of the Gentiles, who know not God: <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>that no man should be exorbitant, and behave contumeliously to his brother: because the Lord is the avenger of all such crimes, as we have formerly remonstrated to you. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>for God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness: <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>he therefore that violates these precepts, does not despise man, but God, who has endued me with his holy spirit.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>As to brotherly love, I have no occasion to write about it, God himself having instructed you to love one another. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>this indeed you practise towards all our brethren in Macedonia; and we only exhort you to advance more and more therein: <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>to study your own quiet, to mind your own affairs, and follow some handicraft trade, as we recommended it to you: <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>so that your way of life may stand fair to the world, and prevent your being dependent upon any man.<p> <A name="14"></a><p class="hdg">The Return of the Lord<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>Now I would not have you, my brethren, be mistaken about the state of the dead, lest you should be as greatly afflicted as those, who have no hope. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we must believe that God by Jesus will raise the dead, and assemble them with him. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>for one thing I have in charge to tell you from the Lord, that we, who shall be found still alive at the coming of the Lord, shall not get the advance of those that are dead: <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>for the Lord himself will descend from heaven, and by the voice of the archangel, with the trumpet of God, resound the summons: they who died christians shall rise first: <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>then we, who shall be still alive, shall be convey'd together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall ever be with the Lord. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>therefore comfort one another with this information.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Daniel Mace New Testament (1729)<br><br>Digital Text Courtesy <a href="https://theword.net">TheWord.net Bible Software</a>.<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</a>.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../1_thessalonians/3.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Thessalonians 3"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Thessalonians 3" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../1_thessalonians/5.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Thessalonians 5"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Thessalonians 5" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>