{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/kjv/1-thessalonians/4","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T02:55:11.541Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","book":"1 Thessalonians","bookSlug":"1-thessalonians","chapter":4,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":3,"nextChapter":5,"totalChapters":5,"totalVerses":18},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort <i>you</i> by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, <i>so</i> ye would abound more and more."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"For this is the will of God, <i>even</i> your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;"},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"That no <i>man</i> go beyond and defraud his brother in <i>any</i> matter: because that the Lord <i>is</i> the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and <i>that</i> ye may have lack of nothing."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive <i>and</i> remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:"},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"Then we which are alive <i>and</i> remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"Wherefore comfort one another with these words."}],"citation":{"inline":"1 Thessalonians 4 (KJV)","markdown":"[1 Thessalonians 4](https://primebible.com/kjv/1-thessalonians/4)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/1-thessalonians/4 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}