1 Thessalonians

1弟兄们，论到时候、日期，不用写信给你们，

2因为你们自己明明晓得，主的日子来到，好像夜间的贼一样。

3人正说「平安稳妥」的时候，灾祸忽然临到他们，如同产难临到怀胎的妇人一样，他们绝不能逃脱。

4弟兄们，你们却不在黑暗里，叫那日子临到你们像贼一样。

5你们都是光明之子，都是白昼之子。我们不是属黑夜的，也不是属幽暗的。

6所以，我们不要睡觉像别人一样，总要警醒谨守。

7因为睡了的人是在夜间睡，醉了的人是在夜间醉。

8但我们既然属乎白昼，就应当谨守，把信和爱当作护心镜遮胸，把得救的盼望当作头盔戴上。

9因为 神不是预定我们受刑，乃是预定我们借着我们主耶稣基督得救。

10他替我们死，叫我们无论醒着，睡着，都与他同活。

11所以，你们该彼此劝慰，互相建立，正如你们素常所行的。

最后的劝勉与祝福

12弟兄们，我们劝你们敬重那在你们中间劳苦的人，就是在主里面治理你们、劝戒你们的；

13又因他们所做的工，用爱心格外尊重他们。你们也要彼此和睦。

14我们又劝弟兄们，要警戒不守规矩的人，勉励灰心的人，扶助软弱的人，也要向众人忍耐。

15你们要谨慎，无论是谁都不可以恶报恶；或是彼此相待，或是待众人，常要追求良善。

16要常常喜乐，

17不住地祷告，

18凡事谢恩；因为这是 神在基督耶稣里向你们所定的旨意。

19不要消灭圣灵的感动；

20不要藐视先知的讲论。

21但要凡事察验；善美的要持守，

22各样的恶事要禁戒不做。

23愿赐平安的 神亲自使你们全然成圣！又愿你们的灵与魂与身子得蒙保守，在我们主耶稣基督降临的时候，完全无可指摘！

24那召你们的本是信实的，他必成就这事。

25请弟兄们为我们祷告。

26与众弟兄亲嘴问安，务要圣洁。

27我指着主嘱咐你们，要把这信念给众弟兄听。

28愿我主耶稣基督的恩常与你们同在！

1And concerning the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need of my writing to you,

2for yourselves have known thoroughly that the day of the Lord as a thief in the night doth so come,

3for when they may say, Peace and surety, then sudden destruction doth stand by them, as the travail [doth] her who is with child, and they shall not escape;

4and ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day may catch you as a thief;

5all ye are sons of light, and sons of day; we are not of night, nor of darkness,

6so, then, we may not sleep as also the others, but watch and be sober,

7for those sleeping, by night do sleep, and those making themselves drunk, by night are drunken,

8and we, being of the day — let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and an helmet — a hope of salvation,

9because God did not appoint us to anger, but to the acquiring of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

10who did die for us, that whether we wake — whether we sleep — together with him we may live;

11wherefore, comfort ye one another, and build ye up, one the one, as also ye do.

12And we ask you, brethren, to know those labouring among you, and leading you in the Lord, and admonishing you,

13and to esteem them very abundantly in love, because of their work; be at peace among yourselves;

14and we exhort you, brethren, admonish the disorderly, comfort the feeble-minded, support the infirm, be patient unto all;

15see no one evil for evil may render to any one, but always that which is good pursue ye, both to one another and to all;

16always rejoice ye;

17continually pray ye;

18in every thing give thanks, for this [is] the will of God in Christ Jesus in regard to you.

19The Spirit quench not;

20prophesyings despise not;

21all things prove; that which is good hold fast;

22from all appearance of evil abstain ye;

23and the God of the peace Himself sanctify you wholly, and may your whole spirit, and soul, and body, be preserved unblameably in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ;

24stedfast is He who is calling you, who also will do [it].

25Brethren, pray for us;

26salute all the brethren in an holy kiss;

27I charge you [by] the Lord, that the letter be read to all the holy brethren;

28the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ [is] with you! Amen.