Thessalonicenses I 4
Clementine Vulgate, 1598Translation
Clementine Vulgate, 1598
Berean Standard Bible
1De cetero ergo, fratres, rogamus vos et obsecramus in Domino Jesu, ut quemadmodum accepistis a nobis quomodo oporteat vos ambulare, et placere Deo, sic et ambuletis ut abundetis magis.
1Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more.
2Scitis enim quæ præcepta dederim vobis per Dominum Jesum.
2For you know the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.
3Hæc est enim voluntas Dei, sanctificatio vestra: ut abstineatis vos a fornicatione,
3For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;
4ut sciat unusquisque vestrum vas suum possidere in sanctificatione, et honore:
4each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,
5non in passione desiderii, sicut et gentes, quæ ignorant Deum:
5not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
6et ne quis supergrediatur, neque circumveniat in negotio fratrem suum: quoniam vindex est Dominus de his omnibus, sicut prædiximus vobis, et testificati sumus.
6and no one should ever violate or exploit his brother in this regard, because the Lord will avenge all such acts, as we have already told you and solemnly warned you.
7Non enim vocavit nos Deus in immunditiam, sed in sanctificationem.
7For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.
8Itaque qui hæc spernit, non hominem spernit, sed Deum: qui etiam dedit Spiritum suum Sanctum in nobis.
8Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.
9De caritate autem fraternitatis non necesse habemus scribere vobis: ipsi enim vos a Deo didicistis ut diligatis invicem.
9Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.
10Etenim illud facitis in omnes fratres in universa Macedonia. Rogamus autem vos, fratres, ut abundetis magis,
10And you are indeed showing this love to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to excel more and more
11et opera detis ut quieti sitis, et ut vestrum negotium agatis, et operemini manibus vestris, sicut præcepimus vobis:
11and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.
12et ut honeste ambuletis ad eos qui foris sunt: et nullius aliquid desideretis.
12Then you will behave properly toward outsiders, without being dependent on anyone.
13Nolumus autem vos ignorare fratres de dormientibus, ut non contristemini sicut et ceteri, qui spem non habent.
13Brothers, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who are without hope.
14Si enim credimus quod Jesus mortuus est, et resurrexit: ita et Deus eos qui dormierunt per Jesum, adducet cum eo.
14For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him.
15Hoc enim vobis dicimus in verbo Domini, quia nos, qui vivimus, qui residui sumus in adventum Domini, non præveniemus eos qui dormierunt.
15By the word of the Lord, we declare to you that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have fallen asleep.
16Quoniam ipse Dominus in jussu, et in voce archangeli, et in tuba Dei descendet de cælo: et mortui, qui in Christo sunt, resurgent primi.
16For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise.
17Deinde nos, qui vivimus, qui relinquimur, simul rapiemur cum illis in nubibus obviam Christo in aëra, et sic semper cum Domino erimus.
17After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.
18Itaque consolamini invicem in verbis istis.
18Therefore encourage one another with these words.
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