I THESSALONICENSE 4

Vermaninge tot heiligmaking, broederlike liefde en werksaamheid.

1 VERDER dan, broeders, vra en vermaan ons julle in die Here Jesus dat julle, soos tjulle van ons geleer het hoe julle moet wandel en God behaag, tnog oorvloediger mag wees.

2 Want julle weet watter bevele ons julle deur die Here Jesus gegee het.

3 Want dit is tdie wil van God: julle theiligmaking; tdat julle jul moet onthou van die hoerery;

4 dat elkeen van julle moet weet om sy teie vrou te verkry in heiligheid en eer,

5 nie in thartstogtelike begeerlikheid tsoos die heidene wat God nie ken nie;

6 dat niemand sy broeder in hierdie saak moet bedrieg en benadeel nie, omdat die Here ’n wreker is oor al hierdie dinge, soos ons aan julle ook vantevore gesê en betuig het.

7 Want God het ons nie tot tonreinheid geroep nie, maar tot heiligmaking.

8 Daarom, hy wat dit verwerp, verwerp nie ’n mens nie, maar God twat ook sy Heilige Gees aan ons gegee het.

9 Oor tdie broederliefde thet julle nie nodig dat ons julle skrywe nie, want julle is self deur God geleer tom mekaar lief te hê;

10 en tjulle doen dit ook aan al die broeders in die hele Macedónië; maar ons vermaan julle, broeders, om oorvloediger te wees

11 en julle eer daarin te stel tom rustig te lewe en tjulle eie sake te behartig en tmet julle eie hande te werk, soos ons julle beveel het,

12 sodat julle welvoeglik kan wandel teenoor tdie wat buite is, en aan niks behoefte mag hê nie.

Oor die opstanding uit die dode en die wederkoms van Christus.

13 MAAR, broeders, ek wil nie hê dat julle onkundig moet wees met betrekking tot tdie ontslapenes nie, sodat julle nie treur soos die ander twat geen hoop het nie.

14 Want as ons glo dat Jesus gesterwe en opgestaan het, dan sal God ook so tdie wat in Jesus ontslaap het, saam met Hom bring.

15 Want dit sê ons vir julle deur die woord van die Here, dat tons wat in die lewe oorbly tot by die wederkoms van die Here, die ontslapenes hoegenaamd nie sal vóór wees nie.

16 Want tdie Here self sal van die hemel neerdaal met ’n geroep, met die stem van t’n aartsengel en tmet geklank van die basuin van God; en tdie wat in Christus gesterf het, sal eerste opstaan.

17 Daarna sal ons wat in die lewe oorbly, saam met hulle tin wolke weggevoer word die Here tegemoet in die lug; en so tsal ons altyd by die Here wees.
18 Bemoedig mekaar dan met hierdie woorde.

1 Thessalonians 4

1 Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.2 For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.3 For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,4 that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God;6 that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.7 For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

8 Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.
9 But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,10 for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more;11 and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you;

12 that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.
13 But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.15 For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep.16 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first,17 then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

18 Therefore comfort one another with these words.