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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>1 Thessalonians 4 Smith's Literal Translation</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/1_thessalonians/4.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/1_thessalonians/4-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">SLT</a> > 1 Thess. 4</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../1_thessalonians/3.htm" title="1 Thessalonians 3">◄</a> 1 Thessalonians 4 <a href="../1_thessalonians/5.htm" title="1 Thessalonians 5">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Smith's Literal Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/1_thessalonians/4-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Living to Please God<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>Therefore as to the rest, brethren we ask you, and beseech in the Lord Jesus, as ye received from us how ye must walk and please God, that ye may more abound. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>For ye know what orders we gave you by the Lord Jesus. <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>For this is the will of God, your consecration, that ye should keep away from fornication: <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>For each of you to know how to possess his vessel in consecration and honour; <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Not in the passion of eager desire, as also the nations not knowing God: <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Not to pass over and have the advantage over his brother in business: because the Lord just for all these, as we told you before and testified. <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>But God has not called you to uncleanness, but in consecration. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>For surely therefore he despising, despises not man, but God, he also giving his holy Spirit for us.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And for brotherly love ye have no need to write to you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>For also ye do the same to all the brethren, them in the whole of Macedonia: and we beseech you, brethren, to more abound; <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>And that ye be ambitions to remain quiet, and attend to your own things, and work with your own hands, as we enjoined you; <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>That ye should walk becomingly to them without, and have need of nothing.<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>And I wish you not to be ignorant, brethren, of them having been asleep, that ye should not grieve, as also the rest, they hating 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 up, so also God by Jesus Christ will bring with him them having slept. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For this we say to you in the word of the Lord, that we the living being left at the arrival of the Lord shall not get beforehand with them having slept. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>For the Lord himself in the word of command, in the voice of the archangel, shall descend from heaven: and the dead in Christ shall be raised first: <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then we the living being left shall be snatched up together with them in the clouds, to the meeting of the Lord in the air: and so we shall always be with the Lord. <span class="reftext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Therefore comfort ye one another with these words.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; 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