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1 Thessalonians 4

1 He exhorteth them to holiness, 6 Innocency, 9 Love, 11 labour, 13 And moderation in lamenting for the dead, 17 Describing the end of the resurrection.
1.And furthermore we beseech you, brethren, & exhort you in the Lord Jesus that ye increase more and more, as ye have received of us, how ye ought to walk, and to please God.
2.For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
3.For this is the will of God even your sanctification, and that ye should abstain from fornication,
4.That every one of you should know, how to possess his vessel in holiness and honour,
5.And not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
6.That no man oppress or defraud his brother in any matter: for the Lord is a venger of all such things, as we also have told you before time and testified.
7.For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
8.He therefore that despiseth these things, despiseth not man, but God who hath even given you his holie Spirit.
9.But as touching brotherly love, ye need not that I write unto you: for ye are taught of God to love one another.
10.Yea, and that thing verily ye do unto all the brethren, which are throughout all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more,
11.And that ye study to be quite, and to meddle with your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you,
12.That ye may behave yourselves honestly toward them that are without, and that nothing be lacking unto you.
13.¶ I would not, brethren, have you ignorant concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not even as other which have no hope.
14.For if we believe that Jesus is dead, & is risen, even so them which sleep in Jesus, will God Ibring with him.
15.For this say we unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which live, and are remaining in the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them which sleep.
16.For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, and with the voice of the Archangel and with the trumpet of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first.
17.Then shall we which live and remain, be caught up with them also in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
18.Wherefore, comfort yourselves one another with these words.

Notes

1-a.
And as it were, overcome yourselves.
2-b.
The Greek word signified such commandments as one receives from some man to give them in his name to others.
3-*.
Rom. 12.1, Ephe. 5.17
3-c.
That is, that you should dedicate yourselves wholly unto God.
4-d.
That is, his body which is profaned by such filthiness.
6-*.
1 Cor. 6.8
7-*.
1 Cor. 1.2
8-*.
1 Cor. 7.40
8-e.
By these precepts of godly life it appears what were the commandments which Paul gave unto them.
9-*.
John 13.34 and 15.12, 1 John 2.8 and 4.21
11-*.
2 Thess 3.7
11-f.
And not be idle.
12-g.
As strangers and infidels.
12-h.
But that ye may be able by your diligence to supply your want and necessity.
13-i.
He does not condemn all kind of sorrow, but that which proceeds of infidelity.
14-k.
Or, have continued constantly in the faith of Christ.
14-l.
By raising their bodies out of the grave.
15-*.
1 Cor. 15.23
15-m.
Which is in the Name of the Lord, and as he should speak himself.
16-*.
Mat. 24.31, 1 Cor 15.52
17-n.
Meaning them which shalbe found alive.
17-o.
In this sudden taking up there shalbe a kind of mutation of the qualities of our bodies which shalbe as a kind of death.