1 Tessalonikerne 4
1 Iøvrigt, Brødre! bede og formane vi Eder i den Herre Jesus, at ligesom I have lært af os, hvorledes det bør Eder at omgaaes og tækkes Gud, I derudi maatte ydermere tiltage.2 I vide jo, hvordanne Bud vi gave Eder formedelst den Herre Jesus.3 Thi dette er Guds Villie, Eders Helliggjørelse, at i skulle skye Horeri;4 at hver af Eder veed at besidde sit Legeme i Hellighed og Ære,5 ikke i Begjerligheds Brynde som Hedningerne, der ikke Kjende Gud;6 At Ingen skal undertrykke eller forfordele sin Broder i nogen Handel; thi Herren er Hevner over alt Saadant, som vi og forud have sagt og vidnet for Eder.7 Thi Gud kaldte os ikke til ureenhed men til Helliggjørelse.8 Hvorfore da, hvo som foragter dette, han foragter ikke et Menneske, men Gud, som og gav sin Hellig Aand i os.9 Men om Broderkjærlighed have i ikke behov, at jeg skal skive Eder til; thi I ere selv lærte af Gud at elske hverandre,10 ja, I gjøre endog det Samme mod alle Brødrene, som ere i hele Macedonien; men vi formane Eder, Brødre! ydermere at tiltage,11 og at søge Ære i at leve stille og varetage hver sin gjerning og arbeide med Eders egne Hænder, saasom vi have budet Eder,12 paa det I maa omgaaes sømmeligen med dem, som ere udenfor, og ikke trænge til Nogen.13 Men jeg vil ikke, at i skulle være uvidende, Brødre! om de Hensovede, paa det I ikke skulle sørge som de Andre, der ikke have Haab.14 Thi dersom vi troe, at Jesus er død og opstanden, da skal og Gud saaledes føre de Hensovne ved Jesus frem med ham.15 Thi dette sige vi Eder som Herrens Ord, at vi, som leve, som overblive til Herrens tilkommelse, vi skulle ikke komme forud for de Hensovede.16 Thi Herren selv skal komme ned af Himmelen med et Anskrig, med Overengels røst og med Guds basune, og de Døde i Christus skulle opstaae først;17 derefter skulle vi, som leve, som ovreblive, rykkes tilligemed dem hen i Skyerne til at møde Herren i Luften; og saaldes skulle vi altid være med Herren.18 Saa trøster hverandre med disse ord!
1 Thessalonians 4
A Life Pleasing to God
1 Finally then, brothers and sisters,t we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received instruction from us about hows you must live and please God (as you are in fact living)s that you do so more and more.2 For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.3 For this is God’s will: that you become holy,t that you keep away from sexual immorality,4 that each of you know how to possess his own bodyt in holiness and honor,5 not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God.6 In this matter no one should violate the rights of his brother or take advantage of him,t because the Lord is the avenger in all these cases,t as we also told you earlier and warned you solemnly.7 For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.
8 Consequently the one who rejects this is not rejecting human authorityt but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
9 Now on the topic of brotherly lovet you have no need for anyone to write you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.10 And indeed you are practicing it toward all the brothers and sisterst in all of Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more,s11 to aspire to lead a quiet life, to attend to your own business, and to work with your hands, as we commanded you.
12 In this way you will livet a decent life before outsiders and not be in need.t
The Lord Returns for Believers
13 Now we do not want you to be uninformed,t brothers and sisters,t about those who are asleep,t so that you will not grieve like the rest who have no hope.14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also we believe thatt God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep as Christians.t15 For we tell you this by the word of the Lord,s that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will surely not go ahead of those who have fallen asleep.16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of the archangel,t and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.17 Then we who are alive, who are left,s will be suddenly caught upt togethert with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.
18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.