Furthermore (1) 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 (a) abound more and more. (1) Various exhortations, the foundation of which is this, to be mindful of those things which they have... [ Continue Reading ]
(2) For this is the will of God, [even] your (b) sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: (2) This is the sum of those things which he delivered to them, to dedicate themselves wholly to God. And he plainly condemns all filthiness through lust, because it is altogether contrary to t... [ Continue Reading ]
(3) That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; (3) Another reason, because it defiles the body.... [ Continue Reading ]
(4) Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: (4) The third, because the saints are distinguished by honesty and purity from those who do not know God.... [ Continue Reading ]
(5) 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. (5) Secondly, he reprehends all violent oppression, and immoderate desire, and shows most severely as the Prophet of God, that God w... [ Continue Reading ]
He therefore that (c) despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit. (c) These commandments which I gave you.... [ Continue Reading ]
(6) But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. (6) Thirdly, he requires a ready mind to every manner of lovingkindness, and exhorts them to profit more and more in that virtue.... [ Continue Reading ]
(7) And that ye study to be quiet, (8) and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; (7) He condemns unsettled minds, and such as are curious in matters which do not concern them. (8) He rebukes idleness and slothfulness: and whoever is given to these vices, fal... [ Continue Reading ]
(9) But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, (10) concerning them (11) which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope. (9) The third part of the epistle, which is mixed in among the former exhortations (which he returns to afterwards), in which he speaks of mourni... [ Continue Reading ]
(12) For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in (d) Jesus will God (e) bring with him. (12) A reason for the confirmation, for seeing that the head is risen, the members also will rise, and that by the power of God. (d) The dead in Christ, who continue in fa... [ Continue Reading ]
(13) For this we say unto you by the (f) word of the Lord, that (g) we which are alive [and] remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. (13) The manner of the resurrection will be in this way: the bodies of the dead will be as it were raised out of sleep at the soun... [ Continue Reading ]
For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a (h) shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: (h) The word which the apostle uses here, properly signifies that encouragement which mariners give to one another, when they altoget... [ Continue Reading ]
Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be (i) caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. (i) Suddenly and in the twinkling of an eye.... [ Continue Reading ]