1 TESALONIKARREI 4

AHOLKUAK JAUNAREN ETORRERARI BEGIRA (4,1—5,11)

Jarraitu Jainkoari atsegin ematen

1 Azkenik, senideok, otoi eta otoi hau eskatzen dizuet Jesus Jaunaren izenean: Jainkoari atsegin emateko nola bizi guregandik ikasi zenutenez gero, saia zaitezte gero eta gehiago horrela bizitzen.t 2 Badakizue nolako irakaspenak eman genizkizuen Jaunaren izenean. 3 Hau nahi du Jainkoak zuengandik: bizi zaiteztela berarentzat, sagaratuei dagokienezt, eta alde egin dezazuela lizunkeriatik. 4 Joka dezala bakoitzak zentzu santuz eta errespetuz bere emaztearekint,t 5 bere burua grinen menpeko egin gabe, Jainkoa ezagutzen ez duten jentilekt bezala; 6 inork ez dezala gai honetan bere senidea irain edo engaina, Jauna bera baita horiez guztiez mendekatzent dena, lehen ere behin eta berriro zinez esan genizuen bezala. 7 Jainkoak ez gaitu moralgabekerian bizitzeko deitu, berarentzat sagaraturik bizitzeko baizik.t

8 Beraz, irakatsi hauek gutxiesten dituenak ez du gizakia gutxiestent, bere Espiritu Santua ematen dizuen Jainkoa baizik.

Elkar maitatzeko eta lan egiteko deia

12 Horrela, kristau ez direnen errespetuat zeuenganatuko duzue, eta ez duzue inoren beharrik izango.

Hildako kristauen piztuera

14 Jesus hil eta piztut zela egiaz sinesten badugu, era berean, Jesusekin bat eginikt hil direnak ere Jainkoak berekin hartuko ditu.
15 Hau diotsuegu, Jaunaren irakatsian oinarrituzt: guk, Jauna etortzean bizirik gertatuko garenokt, ez diegu hil direnei aurrea hartuko. 16 Zeren, goiangeruaren ahotsez eta Jainkoaren turuta-hotsez seinalea emanik, Jauna bera jaitsikot baita zerutik, eta aurrena Kristorekin bat eginik hildakoak piztuko dira; 17 gero gu, artean bizirik izango garenok, haiekin batean eramango gaituzte hodeietan, aireant Jaunarekin topo egiterat. Eta horrela beti Jaunarekin egongo gara. 18 Adore ezazuet, beraz, elkar hitz hauekin.

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.