1 Thessalonians 4:1

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. FURTHERMORE, [ loipon (G3063)] - 'As to what remains.' The transition to the close of his letters (2 Corinthians 13:11). THEN - with a view to the love and holiness (1 Thessalonians 3:12) just prayed for in your behalf, we now give you exhortation. BESEECH - `ask' as a personal favour [ erootoomen (G2065)]. BY - Greek 'IN the L...

1_Furthermore_. This chapter contains various injunctions, by which he trains up the Thessalonians to a holy life, or confirms them in the exercise of it. They had previously learned what was the rule and method of a pious life: he calls this to their remembrance. _As_, says he, _ye have been taught_. Lest, however, he should seem to take away from them what he had previously assigned them, he does not simply exhort them to _walk _in such a manner, but to _abound more and more_. When, therefore, he urges them to make progress, he intimates that they are already in the way. The sum is this, that they should be more especially careful to make progress in the doctrine which they had received, and this Paul places in contrast with frivolous and vain pursuits, in which we see that a good part of the world very generally busy themselves, so that profitable and holy meditation as to the due reg...

1-8 To abide in the faith of the gospel is not enough, we must abound in the work of faith. The rule according to which all ought to walk and act, is the commandments given by the Lord Jesus Christ. Sanctification, in the renewal of their souls under the influences of the Holy Spirit, and attention to appointed duties, constituted the will of God respecting them. In aspiring after this renewal of the soul unto holiness, strict restraint must be put upon the appetites and senses of the body, and on the thoughts and inclinations of the will, which lead to wrong uses of them. The Lord calls none into his family to live unholy lives, but that they may be taught and enabled to walk before him in holiness. Some make light of the precepts of holiness, because they hear them from men; but they are God's commands, and to break them is to despise God....

CHAPTER IV. _The apostle exhorts them to attend to the directions which he_ _had already given them, that they might know how to walk and_ _please God_, 1, 2. _Gives them exhortations concerning continence, chastity, and_ _matrimonial fidelity_, 3-8. _Speaks concerning their love to each other, and love to the_ _Churches of Christ; and exhorts them to continue and increase_ _in it_, 9, 10. _Counsels them to observe an inoffensive conduct, to mind their_ _own affairs, to do their own business, and to live honestly_,...

FURTHERMORE THEN - Τὸ λοιπὸν To loipon. “As to what remains.” That is, all that remains is to offer these exhortations; see the 2 Corinthians 13:11 note; Galatians 6:17 note; Ephesians 6:10 note; Philippians 4:8 note. The phrase is a formula appropriate to the end of an argument or discourse. WE BESEECH YOU - Margin, “request.” The Greek is, “we ask you” - ἐρωτῶμεν erōtōmen. It is not as strong a word as that which follows....

EXPOSITION CONTENTS.—With this chapter the second portion of the Epistle—its practical application-commences. The apostle exhorts and entreats the Thessalonians to make progress in the Christian life, and to practice those commandments which, when he was with them, he gave them by the authority of Jesus Christ. God had called them to holiness and to the renunciation of their heathen practices. They must especially be on their guard against impurity, to which as Gentiles they were formerly so prone. He who rejected his injunctions rejected, not man, but God, whose commands they were. As they were already taught of God in the active practice of Christian love, so they must abound therein. They must not allow themselves to be led away by excitement, as if the day of Christ were at hand, but with quietness and honesty perform the duties of their earthly calling, and so commend the gospel to...

FURTHERMORE THEN WE BESEECH YOU, BRETHREN,.... Or request of you in the most kind and tender manner, from real and hearty love and affection for you, and with a view to your good, and the glory of God: AND EXHORT YOU: or beseech and entreat you. The apostle does not lay his commands upon them as he might have done, and sometimes does, but endeavours to work upon them by way of entreaty, and which he doubtless thought the most effectual method to win upon them, and gain them; for some minds are more easily wrought upon by entreaty than by authority: and this he does in the most moving and powerful manner, even BY THE LORD JESUS; or "in the Lord Jesus"; in his name and stead, as personating him, and as though he did beseech and entreat them by him, and his fellow ministers; or for his sake, intimating, that if they had any regard to him, any value for his name, if that had any weight wit...

1 THESSALONIANS 4:1 kaqw.j kai. peripatei/te {A} The parenthetical clause kaqw.j kai. peripatei/te is lacking in Dc K L Y 177 206 257 623 917 1175 1518 1739 syrp (and the Textus Receptus), having been dropped either accidentally (through confusion with the earlier kaqw,j clause) or deliberately (as seemingly superfluous). External testimony supporting the clause is strong (a A B D* F G 33 104 181 218 330 1311 1611 1836 1906 1912 2005 2127 itd, g vg syrh copsa, bo goth arm eth); internal considerations likewise favor the presence of the clause, for i[na perisseu,hte presupposes the earlier mention of the Thessalon...

IV. THE SEPARATED WALK AND THE BLESSED HOPE CHAPTER 4 _ 1. The separated walk 1 Thessalonians 4:1)_ 2. The coming of the Lord for His saints 1 Thessalonians 4:13) 1 Thessalonians 4:1 “Furthermore, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, even as ye received from us, how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more. For ye know what charges we gave you through the Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication; that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor (not in passionate desire, eve

PRACTICAL EXHORTATIONS TO PURITY OF LIFE AND BROTHERLY LOVE. The Church at Thessalonica has begun well and is encouraged to go forward. 1 THESSALONIANS 4:1. ABOUND: 1 THESSALONIANS 3:12 *. 1 Thessalonians 4:3. abstain, etc.: the inculcation of such an elementary principle of conduct seems strange, but we need to remember that certain heathen cults regarded immorality as part of the ritual of worship, and religion and immorality were to them almost convertible terms. This consecration of vice in paganism made it absolutely necessary for Paul to insist upon moral purity....