1 A few more things: Brothers and sisters, we plead with you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to behave in ways that please God, just as we instructed you. Of course you're already doing this, just do it more and more! 2 You remember the instructions we gave you on behalf of the Lord Jesus. 3 What God wants is for you to live holy lives. So stay away from sexual immorality 4 in order that each of you may control yourselves in a way that is holy and respectful, 5 not indulging passionate lust like the heathen who have no knowledge of God. 6 Don't cheat or take advantage of another Christian in these matters, for the Lord is the one who executes justice in all such things, as we've already clearly explained to you, and warned you about. 7 For God did not call us to live impure lives, but holy lives. 8 So anyone who rejects this position isn't just rejecting what a human being is saying; they are rejecting God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you. 9 We certainly don't need to write and tell you to love fellow-believers, because God teaches you to love one another— 10 and in fact you are demonstrating this love to all the believers throughout Macedonia. Even so we want to encourage you, brothers and sisters, to love more and more. 11 Try to live a quiet life, minding your own business, doing your own work, as we've already explained to you, 12 so that your way of life may be respected by non-Christians and you won't have to rely on anyone to provide what you need. 13 We don't want you to be confused about what happens when people die, brothers and sisters, so that you won't grieve like others who don't have any hope. 14 Since we're convinced that Jesus died and rose again, we're also sure that God will bring with Jesus those who have died trusting in him. 15 What we're telling you comes from the Lord: Those of us who are alive and still here when the Lord comes certainly won't precede those who have died. 16 For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the cry of the archangel, and with the sound of God's trumpet, and those who have died in Christ will rise first. 17 Then those of us who are alive and still here will be carried up together with them into the clouds, and we shall meet the Lord in the air. Then we will be with the Lord forever! 18 So encourage one another with these words.
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Referencias cruzadas (18)
Pasajes relacionados con cada versículo, del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, tal como los reúnen y ordenan los lectores de OpenBible.info.
- 1 Colosenses 1:10; 2 Tesalonicenses 1:3; 2 Pedro 3:18; Hebreos 13:16; Filipenses 1:9
- 2 Mateo 28:20; Ezequiel 3:17; 2 Tesalonicenses 3:10; 1 Corintios 9:21; 2 Tesalonicenses 3:6
- 3 1 Pedro 4:2; Romanos 12:2; 1 Tesalonicenses 5:23; Hebreos 13:4; Colosenses 3:5
- 4 1 Corintios 7:9; Romanos 12:1; Hebreos 13:4; 1 Pedro 3:7; 1 Corintios 6:15
- 5 Gálatas 4:8; Hechos 17:30–31; Efesios 4:17–19; Colosenses 3:5; 2 Tesalonicenses 1:8
- 6 Hebreos 13:4; Romanos 12:19; Éxodo 20:17; Éxodo 20:15; Proverbios 28:24
- 7 Levítico 11:44; 1 Pedro 2:9–12; Efesios 1:4; 1 Pedro 1:14–16; Romanos 8:29–30
- 8 1 Juan 3:24; Lucas 10:16; 1 Samuel 8:7; Juan 12:48; 2 Pedro 1:21
- 9 1 Juan 3:11; Romanos 12:10; 1 Juan 3:23; Juan 13:34–35; Hebreos 13:1
- 10 Filipenses 1:9; 1 Tesalonicenses 3:12; 2 Tesalonicenses 1:3; 1 Tesalonicenses 1:7; 2 Corintios 8:1–2
- 11 Eclesiastés 4:6; Efesios 4:28; 1 Pedro 3:4; Tito 3:14; Proverbios 17:1
- 12 Colosenses 4:5; Romanos 12:17; 1 Pedro 2:12; 1 Timoteo 3:7; Romanos 13:13
- 13 Daniel 12:2; 1 Tesalonicenses 4:15; 1 Tesalonicenses 5:10; 1 Corintios 15:18–19; 2 Pedro 3:4
- 14 Romanos 8:11; Filipenses 3:20–21; Isaías 26:19; 2 Corintios 4:13–14; 1 Tesalonicenses 4:13
- 15 1 Corintios 15:51–53; 2 Corintios 4:14; 1 Tesalonicenses 2:19
- 16 1 Corintios 15:51–52; Apocalipsis 1:7; Mateo 24:30–31; 1 Corintios 15:23; Mateo 16:27
- 17 1 Corintios 15:52; Apocalipsis 11:12; Juan 14:3; 1 Tesalonicenses 4:15; Apocalipsis 1:7
- 18 1 Tesalonicenses 5:11; 1 Tesalonicenses 5:14; Lucas 21:28; Hebreos 10:24–25; Isaías 40:1–2
Referencias cruzadas: OpenBible.info (CC BY), tomadas sobre todo del Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (dominio público). · Fuentes y licencias
Lo que dijeron los Padres
Pasajes de los Padres de la Iglesia que comentan o citan este capítulo, tal como aparecen en la edición de Schaff (traducciones inglesas del siglo XIX, de dominio público). Los textos están en inglés.
Cómo se eligieron
«Comentario» es el comienzo de una homilía o exposición sobre este capítulo (homilías de san Juan Crisóstomo; tratados, sermones y comentarios a los Salmos de san Agustín). «Cita» es una frase en la que las notas de la propia edición identifican la cita de un versículo de este capítulo; solo se conserva si el texto coincide con el versículo. Solo se usan obras de autoría segura. Los Salmos siguen la numeración hebrea (Agustín usa la de los Setenta: su Salmo 50 es aquí el 51).
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!
Leer en contexto · 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 …
Leer en contexto · 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 …
Leer en contexto · 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, …
Leer en contexto · 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.
Leer en contexto · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)