1 Thessalonians 3:12-4:10
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
12 And may the Lord make you to increase and excel and overflow in love for one another and for all people, just as we also do for you,
13 So that He may strengthen and confirm and establish your hearts faultlessly pure and unblamable in holiness in the sight of our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (the Messiah) with all His saints (the [a]holy and glorified people of God)! Amen, (so be it)!
4 Furthermore, [b]brethren, we beg and admonish you in [virtue of our union with] the Lord Jesus, that [you follow the instructions which] you learned from us about how you ought to walk so as to please and gratify God, as indeed you are doing, [and] that you do so even more and more abundantly [attaining yet greater perfection in living this life].
2 For you know what charges and precepts we gave you [[c]on the authority and by the inspiration of] the Lord Jesus.
3 For this is the will of God, that you should be consecrated (separated and set apart for pure and holy living): that you should abstain and shrink from all sexual vice,
4 That each one of you should know how to [d]possess (control, manage) his own [e]body in consecration (purity, separated from things profane) and honor,
5 Not [to be used] in the passion of lust like the heathen, who are ignorant of the true God and have no knowledge of His will,
6 That no man transgress and overreach his brother and defraud him in this matter or defraud his brother in business. For the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we have already warned you solemnly and [f]told you plainly.
7 For God has not called us to impurity but to consecration [to dedicate ourselves to the most thorough purity].
8 Therefore whoever disregards (sets aside and rejects this) disregards not man but God, Whose [very] Spirit [Whom] He gives to you is holy (chaste, pure).
9 But concerning brotherly love [for all other Christians], you have no need to have anyone write you, for you yourselves have been [personally] taught by God to love one another.
10 And indeed you already are [extending and displaying your love] to all the brethren throughout Macedonia. But we beseech and earnestly exhort you, brethren, that you [g]excel [in this matter] more and more,
Footnotes
- 1 Thessalonians 3:13 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:1 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:2 G. Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:4 The American Standard Version and others so read.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:4 Some of the early versions of the Bible read “vessel” here. The reading “body” is supported by most lexicons, and by such translations as Ronald Knox, The Holy Bible: A Translation from the Latin Vulgate; J.B. Phillips, New Testament in Modern English; and Arthur S. Way, Way’s Epistles: The Letters of St. Paul to Seven Churches and Three Friends.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:6 G. Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon.
- 1 Thessalonians 4:10 G. Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon.
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