1 Thessalonians

The first epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Thessalonians, chapter 4, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 4 Vulgate

   1 De cetero ergo, fratres, rogamus vos et obsecramus in Domino Iesu, ut - quemadmodum accepistis a nobis quomodo vos oporteat ambulare et placere Deo, sicut et ambulatis - ut abundetis magis.
   2 Scitis enim, quae praecepta dederimus vobis per Dominum Iesum.
   3 Haec est enim voluntas Dei, sanctificatio vestra,
   4 ut abstineatis a fornicatione; ut sciat unusquisque vestrum suum vas possidere in sanctificatione et honore,
   5 non in passione desiderii, sicut et gentes, quae ignorant Deum;
   6 ut ne quis supergrediatur neque circumveniat in negotio fratrem suum, quoniam vindex est Dominus de his omnibus, sicut et praediximus vobis et testificati sumus.
   7 Non enim vocavit nos Deus in immunditiam sed in sanctificationem.
   8 Itaque, qui spernit, non hominem spernit sed Deum, qui etiam dat Spiritum suum Sanctum in vos.
   9 De caritate autem fraternitatis non necesse habetis, ut vobis scribam; ipsi enim vos a Deo edocti estis, ut diligatis invicem;
   10 etenim facitis illud in omnes fratres in universa Macedonia. Rogamus autem vos, fratres, ut abundetis magis;
   11 et operam detis, ut quieti sitis et ut vestrum negotium agatis et operemini manibus vestris, sicut praecipimus vobis;
   12 ut honeste ambuletis ad eos, qui foris sunt, et nullius aliquid desideretis.
   13 Nolumus autem vos ignorare, fratres, de dormientibus, ut non contristemini sicut et ceteri, qui spem non habent.
   14 Si enim credimus quod Iesus mortuus est et resurrexit, ita et Deus eos, qui dormierunt, per Iesum adducet cum eo.
   15 Hoc enim vobis dicimus in verbo Domini, quia nos, qui vivimus, qui relinquimur in adventum Domini, non praeveniemus eos, qui dormierunt;
   16 quoniam ipse Dominus in iussu, in voce archangeli et in tuba Dei descendet de caelo, et mortui, qui in Christo sunt, resurgent primi;
   17 deinde nos, qui vivimus, qui relinquimur, simul rapiemur cum illis in nubibus obviam Domino in aera, et sic semper cum Domino erimus.
   18 Itaque consolamini invicem in verbis istis.

King James Version

   1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
   2 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
   3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
   4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
   5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
   6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
   7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
   8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
   9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.
   10 And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;
   11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
   12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
   13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
   14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
   15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
   16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
   17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
   18 Wherefore comfort one another with these words.