1 Thessalonians 4 Bishops' Bible 1568

From Textus Receptus

1Th 4:1 Furthermore we besech you brethren, & exhorte you by the Lorde Iesus, that ye encrease more and more, as ye haue receaued of vs, how ye ought to walke and to please God. 1Th 4:2 For ye knowe what commaundementes we gaue you by the Lorde Iesus. 1Th 4:3 For this is the wyll of God, your holynesse, that ye should abstayne from fornication: 1Th 4:4 That euery one of you should knowe how to possesse his vessell in holynesse and honour: 1Th 4:5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, euen as the gentiles, which knowe not God. 1Th 4:6 That no man oppresse and defraude his brother in [any] matter, because that the Lorde is the auenger of all suche: as we also haue forewarned you, and testified. 1Th 4:7 For God hath not called vs vnto vncleanenesse, but into holynesse. 1Th 4:8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath geuen to you his holy spirite. 1Th 4:9 But as touchyng brotherly loue, ye nede not that I write vnto you: For ye are taught of God to loue one another. 1Th 4:10 Yea and that thyng veryly ye do vnto all ye brethren which [are] in al Macedonia: But we beseche you brethren, that ye encrease more and more: 1Th 4:11 And that ye studie to be quiet, and to do your owne [busynesse] and to worke with your owne handes as we commaunded you: 1Th 4:12 That ye may walke honestly toward them that are without, & that nothyng be lackyng in you. 1Th 4:13 But I woulde not haue you to be ignoraunt brethren, concernyng them which sleepe, that ye sorowe not euen as other, which haue no hope. 1Th 4:14 For yf we beleue that Iesus dyed and rose agayne: euen so them also whiche sleepe by Iesus, wyll God bryng with hym. 1Th 4:15 For this say we vnto you in the worde of the Lorde, that we whiche lyue, remayning vnto the comyng of the Lord, shall not preuent them which sleepe. 1Th 4:16 For the Lorde hym selfe shal descende from heauen in a shoute, [and] in the voyce of the Archangell, and in the trumpe of God: And the dead in Christ shall aryse first. 1Th 4:17 Than we which lyue, which remaine, shalbe caught vp together with them in the cloudes, to meete the Lorde in the ayre: And so shall we euer be with the Lorde. 1Th 4:18 Wherfore comfort your selues one another in these wordes.