1 Thessalonians

神所悦纳的生活

1弟兄们，我还有话说：我们靠着主耶稣求你们，劝你们，你们既然受了我们的教训，知道该怎样行可以讨 神的喜悦，就要照你们现在所行的更加勉励。

2你们原晓得，我们凭主耶稣传给你们什么命令。

3神的旨意就是要你们成为圣洁，远避淫行；

4要你们各人晓得怎样用圣洁、尊贵守着自己的身体，

5不放纵私欲的邪情，像那不认识 神的外邦人。

6不要一个人在这事上越分，欺负他的弟兄；因为这一类的事，主必报应，正如我预先对你们说过、又切切嘱咐你们的。

7神召我们，本不是要我们沾染污秽，乃是要我们成为圣洁。

8所以，那弃绝的，不是弃绝人，乃是弃绝那赐圣灵给你们的 神。

9论到弟兄们相爱，不用人写信给你们；因为你们自己蒙了 神的教训，叫你们彼此相爱。

10你们向马其顿全地的众弟兄固然是这样行，但我劝弟兄们要更加勉励。

11又要立志作安静人，办自己的事，亲手做工，正如我们从前所吩咐你们的，

12叫你们可以向外人行事端正，自己也就没有什么缺乏了。

主的降临

13论到睡了的人，我们不愿意弟兄们不知道，恐怕你们忧伤，像那些没有指望的人一样。

14我们若信耶稣死而复活了，那已经在耶稣里睡了的人， 神也必将他们与耶稣一同带来。

15我们现在照主的话告诉你们一件事：我们这活着还存留到主降临的人，断不能在那已经睡了的人之先。

16因为主必亲自从天降临，有呼叫的声音和天使长的声音，又有 神的号吹响；那在基督里死了的人必先复活。

17以后我们这活着还存留的人必和他们一同被提到云里，在空中与主相遇。这样，我们就要和主永远同在。

18所以，你们当用这些话彼此劝慰。

1As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,

2for ye have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus,

3for this is the will of God — your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

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

5not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

6that no one go beyond and defraud in the matter his brother, because an avenger [is] the Lord of all these, as also we spake before to you and testified,

7for God did not call us on uncleanness, but in sanctification;

8he, therefore, who is despising — doth not despise man, but God, who also did give His Holy Spirit to us.

9And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of [my] writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,

10for ye do it also to all the brethren who [are] in all Macedonia; and we call upon you, brethren, to abound still more,

11and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,

12that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.

13And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope,

14for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also God those asleep through Jesus he will bring with him,

15for this to you we say in the word of the Lord, that we who are living — who do remain over to the presence of the Lord — may not precede those asleep,

16because the Lord himself, in a shout, in the voice of a chief-messenger, and in the trump of God, shall come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first,

17then we who are living, who are remaining over, together with them shall be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in air, and so always with the Lord we shall be;

18so, then, comfort ye one another in these words.