1 Όθεν του λοιπού, αδελφοί, σας παρακαλούμεν και σας προτρέπομεν διά του Κυρίου Ιησού, καθώς παρελάβετε παρ' ημών το πως πρέπει να περιπατήτε και να αρέσκητε εις τον Θεόν, ούτω να περισσεύητε εις το μάλλον· 2 διότι εξεύρετε ποίας παραγγελίας εδώκαμεν εις εσάς διά του Κυρίου Ιησού. 3 Επειδή τούτο είναι το θέλημα του Θεού, ο αγιασμός σας, να απέχησθε από της πορνείας, 4 να εξεύρη έκαστος υμών να κρατή το εαυτού σκεύος εν αγιασμώ και τιμή, 5 ουχί εις πάθος επιθυμίας καθώς και τα έθνη τα μη γνωρίζοντα τον Θεόν, 6 να μη υπερβαίνη τις και αδική τον αδελφόν αυτού εις το πράγμα τούτο, διότι ο Θεός είναι εκδικητής διά πάντα ταύτα, καθώς και σας προείπομεν και διά μαρτυριών εβεβαιώσαμεν. 7 Διότι ο Θεός δεν εκάλεσεν ημάς προς ακαθαρσίαν, αλλά προς αγιασμόν. 8 Όθεν ο αθετών ταύτα δεν αθετεί άνθρωπον, αλλά τον Θεόν, όστις και έδωκε το Πνεύμα αυτού το Άγιον εις ημάς. 9 Περί δε της φιλαδελφίας δεν έχετε χρείαν να σας γράφω· διότι σεις αυτοί είσθε θεοδίδακτοι εις το να αγαπάτε αλλήλους· 10 επειδή και πράττετε αυτό εις πάντας τους αδελφούς τους καθ' όλην την Μακεδονίαν. Σας παρακαλούμεν δε, αδελφοί, να περισσεύητε κατά τούτο επί το μάλλον 11 και να φιλοτιμήσθε εις το να ησυχάζητε και να καταγίνησθε εις τα ίδια και να εργάζησθε με τας ιδίας υμών χείρας, καθώς σας παρηγγείλαμεν, 12 διά να περιπατήτε με ευσχημοσύνην προς τους έξω και να μη έχητε χρείαν μηδενός. 13 Δεν θέλω δε να αγνοήτε, αδελφοί, περί των κεκοιμημένων, διά να μη λυπήσθε καθώς και οι λοιποί οι μη έχοντες ελπίδα. 14 Διότι εάν πιστεύωμεν ότι ο Ιησούς απέθανε και ανέστη, ούτω και ο Θεός τους κοιμηθέντας διά του Ιησού θέλει φέρει μετ' αυτού. 15 Διότι τούτο σας λέγομεν διά του λόγου του Κυρίου, ότι ημείς οι ζώντες, όσοι απομένομεν εις την παρουσίαν του Κυρίου, δεν θέλομεν προλάβει τους κοιμηθέντας· 16 επειδή αυτός ο Κύριος θέλει καταβή απ' ουρανού με κέλευσμα, με φωνήν αρχαγγέλου και με σάλπιγγα Θεού, και οι αποθανόντες εν Χριστώ θέλουσιν αναστηθή πρώτον, 17 έπειτα ημείς οι ζώντες όσοι απομένομεν θέλομεν αρπαχθή μετ' αυτών εν νεφέλαις εις απάντησιν του Κυρίου εις τον αέρα, και ούτω θέλομεν είσθαι πάντοτε μετά του Κυρίου. 18 Λοιπόν παρηγορείτε αλλήλους με τους λόγους τούτους.
1 Thessalonians · Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
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Notes on this text (2)
- The Old Testament is translated from the Hebrew, not from the Septuagint read in the Orthodox Church; there are no deuterocanonical books.
- Katharevousa (learned 19th-century Greek), as in the CrossWire module (text from theword.gr).
Cross references (18)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Colossians 1:10; 2 Thessalonians 1:3; 2 Peter 3:18; Hebrews 13:16; Philippians 1:9
- 2 Matthew 28:20; Ezekiel 3:17; 2 Thessalonians 3:10; 1 Corinthians 9:21; 2 Thessalonians 3:6
- 3 1 Peter 4:2; Romans 12:2; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; Hebrews 13:4; Colossians 3:5
- 4 1 Corinthians 7:9; Romans 12:1; Hebrews 13:4; 1 Peter 3:7; 1 Corinthians 6:15
- 5 Galatians 4:8; Acts 17:30–31; Ephesians 4:17–19; Colossians 3:5; 2 Thessalonians 1:8
- 6 Hebrews 13:4; Romans 12:19; Exodus 20:17; Exodus 20:15; Proverbs 28:24
- 7 Leviticus 11:44; 1 Peter 2:9–12; Ephesians 1:4; 1 Peter 1:14–16; Romans 8:29–30
- 8 1 John 3:24; Luke 10:16; 1 Samuel 8:7; John 12:48; 2 Peter 1:21
- 9 1 John 3:11; Romans 12:10; 1 John 3:23; John 13:34–35; Hebrews 13:1
- 10 Philippians 1:9; 1 Thessalonians 3:12; 2 Thessalonians 1:3; 1 Thessalonians 1:7; 2 Corinthians 8:1–2
- 11 Ecclesiastes 4:6; Ephesians 4:28; 1 Peter 3:4; Titus 3:14; Proverbs 17:1
- 12 Colossians 4:5; Romans 12:17; 1 Peter 2:12; 1 Timothy 3:7; Romans 13:13
- 13 Daniel 12:2; 1 Thessalonians 4:15; 1 Thessalonians 5:10; 1 Corinthians 15:18–19; 2 Peter 3:4
- 14 Romans 8:11; Philippians 3:20–21; Isaiah 26:19; 2 Corinthians 4:13–14; 1 Thessalonians 4:13
- 15 1 Corinthians 15:51–53; 2 Corinthians 4:14; 1 Thessalonians 2:19
- 16 1 Corinthians 15:51–52; Revelation 1:7; Matthew 24:30–31; 1 Corinthians 15:23; Matthew 16:27
- 17 1 Corinthians 15:52; Revelation 11:12; John 14:3; 1 Thessalonians 4:15; Revelation 1:7
- 18 1 Thessalonians 5:11; 1 Thessalonians 5:14; Luke 21:28; Hebrews 10:24–25; Isaiah 40:1–2
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What the Fathers said
Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
When he has met what was pressing, and what was upon his hands, and is about henceforth to enter upon things that are perpetual, and which they ought continually to hear, he adds this expression, "finally," that is, always and forever. "We beseech and exhort you in the Lord." Strange!
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 13 (1889)
What friend of wisdom and holy joys, who, being married, but knowing, as the apostle says, "how to possess his vessel in santification and honor, not in the disease of desire, as the Gentiles who know not God," would not prefer, if this were possi ble, to beget children without this lust, so that in this function of begetting offspring …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
Which Paul too did, saying, "Sorrow not, even as the rest which have no hope;" and, "Even as the Gentiles which know not God." And to signify that He requires nothing very overpowering, but a little more than was accustomed, He saith, "Do not even the Gentiles the same?" Yet nevertheless He stops not the discourse at this, but makes …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 10 (1888)
… watch over your souls; keep unshaken and unchanged your hope in Him who rose again; raise you together with Him from your dead sins unto His heavenly gift; count you worthy to be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air, in His fitting time; and, until that time arrive of His glorious second advent, …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)
It is yours according to your merit to be "ever with the Lord," and you expect to be caught up "in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air and to be ever with the Lord." You declare the man who numbers and ranks the Spirit with the Father and the Son to be guilty of intolerable impiety.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)