א Tas'loniqim ד

1 Thessalonians 4 (KJV)

¹ Furthermore then we beg you, brothers, and call upon you by the Master יֵשׁוּעַ, that as you have received of us how you ought to walk and to please Elohim, so you would excell more and more.

² For you know what commandments we gave you by the Master Yeshua.

³ For this is the will of Elohim, even your set-apartness, that you should abstain from fornication:

⁴ That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor;

⁵ Not in the passion of lust, even as the Nations which do not know Elohim:

⁶ That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in this matter: because that the Master is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

⁷ For Elohim has not called us unto uncleanness, but to dedication.

⁸ He therefore that despises, despises not man, but Elohim, Who has also given to us His Ruach Kodesh.

⁹ But as touching brotherly love you need not that I write to you: for you yourselves are taught of Elohim to love one another.

¹⁰ And indeed you do it toward all the brothers which are in all Makedonia: but we beg you, brothers, that you increase more and more;

¹¹ And that you study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

¹² That you may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that you may have lack of nothing.

¹³ But I would not have you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning them which are asleep, that you sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

¹⁴ For if we believe that Yeshua died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Yeshua will Elohim bring with Him.

¹⁵ For this we say unto you by the Word of the Master, that we which are alive and remain to the coming of the Master shall not go before them which are asleep.

¹⁶ For the Master Himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of Elohim: and the dead in HaMashiach shall rise first:

¹⁷ Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Master in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Master.

¹⁸ So then encourage one another with these words.