MODERN LITERAL VERSION

4:1 Then* furthermore brethren, we request and are encouraging you* in the Lord Jesus, even as you* received from us how you* ought to walk and to please God, that* you* might abound even more.
4:2 For* you* know what commands we gave you* through the Lord Jesus.
4:3 For* this is the will of God, your* sanctification, that you* abstain from fornication;
4:4 that each one of you* know how to procure his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
4:5 not in the passion of lust, just-as the Gentiles who do not know God.
4:6 Also, that no one goes beyond limits and takes-advantage of his brother in the matter, because the Lord is an avenger concerning all these things, as we have also told you* beforehand and testified.
4:7 For* God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
4:8 Therefore he who is rejecting this, is not rejecting man, but God, who also gives his Holy Spirit to you*.

4:9 Now concerning brotherly-love you* have no need that one writes to you*; for* you* yourselves are taught by God, *that* you* should love* one another;
4:10 for* you* are also doing it toward all the brethren who are in all of Macedonia. But we encourage you*, brethren, that you* abound more and more,
4:11 and that you* make it your aim to be quiet and to do your* own business and to work with your* own hands (just-as we commanded you*),
4:12 that* you* may walk decently toward those who are outside and may have need of nothing.

4:13 But we do not wish you*, brethren, to be ignorant concerning those who have fallen-asleep; in order that you* may not be sorrowful like the rest who have no hope.
4:14 For* if we believe that Jesus died and rose* up again, so those who have fallen-asleep {F} in Jesus, God will also bring with him.
4:15 For* this we are saying to you* in the word of the Lord, that we, the living, who are left toward the presence of the Lord, may never* attain heaven before those who have fallen-asleep.
4:16 Because the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a commanding yell, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God and the dead in Christ will rise* up first;
4:17 thereafter we, the living, who are left, will be taken away at the same time with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air and so we will always be with the Lord.
4:18 So-then encourage one another with these words.
{Footnotes: 1Th 4:14- Or: through.}