1 Thessalonians 4

Darby Bible · 1890 · New Testament · 5 chapters

Reading 1 Thessalonians chapter 4 in the Darby Bible, public-domain text from 1890.

Verses 1–10

1 For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in [the] Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and pleaseGod, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.

2 For ye know what charges we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

3 For this is [the] will ofGod, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;

4 that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour,

5 (not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know notGod,)

6 not overstepping the rights of and wronging his brother in the matter, because the Lord [is] the avenger of all these things, even as we also told you before, and have fully testified.

7 ForGod has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.

8 He therefore that [in this] disregards [his brother], disregards, not man, butGod, who has given also his Holy Spirit to you.

9 Now concerning brotherly love ye have no need that we should write to you, for ye yourselves are taught ofGod to love one another.

10 For also ye do this towards all the brethren in the whole of Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound still more,

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