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RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
1 As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,
1 RESTA pues, hermanos, que os roguemos y exhortemos en el Señor Jesús, que de la manera que fuisteis enseñados de nosotros de cómo os conviene andar, y agradar á Dios, [así] vayáis creciendo.
2 for ye have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus,
2 Porque ya sabéis qué mandamientos os dimos por el Señor Jesús.
3 for this is the will of God — your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,
3 Porque la voluntad de Dios es vuestra santificación: que os apartéis de fornicación;
4 that each of you know his own vessel to possess in sanctification and honour,
4 Que cada uno de vosotros sepa tener su vaso en santificación y honor;
5 not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,
5 No con afecto de concupiscencia, como los Gentiles que no conocen á Dios:
6 that no one go beyond and defraud in the matter his brother, because an avenger [is] the Lord of all these, as also we spake before to you and testified,
6 Que ninguno oprima, ni engañe en nada á su hermano: porque el Señor es vengador de todo esto, como ya os hemos dicho y protestado.
7 for God did not call us on uncleanness, but in sanctification;
7 Porque no nos ha llamado Dios á inmundicia, sino á santificación.
8 he, therefore, who is despising — doth not despise man, but God, who also did give His Holy Spirit to us.
8 Así que, el que menosprecia, no menosprecia á hombre, sino á Dios, el cual también nos dió su Espíritu Santo.
9 And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of [my] writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,
9 Mas acerca de la caridad fraterna no habéis menester que os escriba: porque vosotros mismos habéis aprendido de Dios que os améis los unos á los otros;
10 for ye do it also to all the brethren who [are] in all Macedonia; and we call upon you, brethren, to abound still more,
10 Y también lo hacéis [así] con todos los hermanos que están por toda Macedonia. Empero os rogamos, hermanos, que abundéis más;
11 and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,
11 Y que procuréis tener quietud, y hacer vuestros negocios, y obréis de vuestras manos de la manera que os hemos mandado;
12 that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.
12 A fin de que andéis honestamente para con los extraños, y no necesitéis de nada.
13 And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope,
13 Tampoco, hermanos, queremos que ignoréis acerca de los que duermen, que no os entristezcáis como los otros que no tienen esperanza.
14 for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also God those asleep through Jesus he will bring with him,
14 Porque si creemos que Jesús murió y resucitó, así también traerá Dios con él á los que durmieron en Jesús.
15 for this to you we say in the word of the Lord, that we who are living — who do remain over to the presence of the Lord — may not precede those asleep,
15 Por lo cual, os decimos esto en palabra del Señor: que nosotros que vivimos, que habremos quedado hasta la venida del Señor, no seremos delanteros á los que durmieron.
16 because the Lord himself, in a shout, in the voice of a chief-messenger, and in the trump of God, shall come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first,
16 Porque el mismo Señor con aclamación, con voz de arcángel, y con trompeta de Dios, descenderá del cielo; y los muertos en Cristo resucitarán primero:
17 then we who are living, who are remaining over, together with them shall be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in air, and so always with the Lord we shall be;
17 Luego nosotros, los que vivimos, los que quedamos, juntamente con ellos seremos arrebatados en las nubes á recibir al Señor en el aire, y así estaremos siempre con el Señor.
18 so, then, comfort ye one another in these words.
18 Por tanto, consolaos los unos á los otros en estas palabras.
Cross references (18)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Colossians 1:10; 2 Thessalonians 1:3; 2 Peter 3:18; Hebrews 13:16; Philippians 1:9
  2. 2 Matthew 28:20; Ezekiel 3:17; 2 Thessalonians 3:10; 1 Corinthians 9:21; 2 Thessalonians 3:6
  3. 3 1 Peter 4:2; Romans 12:2; 1 Thessalonians 5:23; Hebrews 13:4; Colossians 3:5
  4. 4 1 Corinthians 7:9; Romans 12:1; Hebrews 13:4; 1 Peter 3:7; 1 Corinthians 6:15
  5. 5 Galatians 4:8; Acts 17:30–31; Ephesians 4:17–19; Colossians 3:5; 2 Thessalonians 1:8
  6. 6 Hebrews 13:4; Romans 12:19; Exodus 20:17; Exodus 20:15; Proverbs 28:24
  7. 7 Leviticus 11:44; 1 Peter 2:9–12; Ephesians 1:4; 1 Peter 1:14–16; Romans 8:29–30
  8. 8 1 John 3:24; Luke 10:16; 1 Samuel 8:7; John 12:48; 2 Peter 1:21
  9. 9 1 John 3:11; Romans 12:10; 1 John 3:23; John 13:34–35; Hebrews 13:1
  10. 10 Philippians 1:9; 1 Thessalonians 3:12; 2 Thessalonians 1:3; 1 Thessalonians 1:7; 2 Corinthians 8:1–2
  11. 11 Ecclesiastes 4:6; Ephesians 4:28; 1 Peter 3:4; Titus 3:14; Proverbs 17:1
  12. 12 Colossians 4:5; Romans 12:17; 1 Peter 2:12; 1 Timothy 3:7; Romans 13:13
  13. 13 Daniel 12:2; 1 Thessalonians 4:15; 1 Thessalonians 5:10; 1 Corinthians 15:18–19; 2 Peter 3:4
  14. 14 Romans 8:11; Philippians 3:20–21; Isaiah 26:19; 2 Corinthians 4:13–14; 1 Thessalonians 4:13
  15. 15 1 Corinthians 15:51–53; 2 Corinthians 4:14; 1 Thessalonians 2:19
  16. 16 1 Corinthians 15:51–52; Revelation 1:7; Matthew 24:30–31; 1 Corinthians 15:23; Matthew 16:27
  17. 17 1 Corinthians 15:52; Revelation 11:12; John 14:3; 1 Thessalonians 4:15; Revelation 1:7
  18. 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).

How these were chosen

“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).

  1. Commentary 4:1 John Chrysostom, Homilies on First Thessalonians (Homily V)

    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)

  2. Quotes verse 4:4 Augustine of Hippo, The City of God (Book XIV, Chapters 14–16)

    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)

  3. Quotes verse 4:5 John Chrysostom, Homilies on the Gospel of Matthew (Homily XVIII)

    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)

  4. Quotes verse 4:17 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XIV)

    … 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)

  5. Quotes verse 4:17 Basil of Caesarea, On the Holy Spirit (Chapters XXVIII–XXIX)

    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)