1Furthermore 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 abound more and more. 2For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. 3For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: 4That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; 5Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: 6That 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. 7For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. 8He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit. 9But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. 10And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more; 11And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; 12That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
13But 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. 14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 16For 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: 17Then we which are alive and 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. 18Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
Život ugodan Bogu
1Na koncu, draga braćo i sestre, zaklinjemo vas u imenu Gospodina Isusa da živite životom ugodnim Bogu kao što smo vas poučili. Vi već tako i živite. Napredujte i dalje. 2Znate zapovijedi koje smo vam dali u ime Gospodina Isusa. 3Bog želi da budete sveti i čisti, da se uzdržavate od grijeha bluda. 4Tako će svatko od nas znati nadzirati svoje tijelo4:4 U grčkome: znati kako posjedovati svoju posudu. u svetosti i časti, 5a ne živjeti u strasti i pohoti poput pogana koji ne poznaju Boga.
6Nikada u tomu ni u čemu drugome ne varajte svojega brata kršćanina jer Gospodin se za to osvećuje, kao što sam vas već upozorio. 7Jer nas Bog nije pozvao da živimo pokvarenim, već čistim životom. 8Tko odbacuje ove zapovijedi, ne odbacuje čovjeka, nego Boga koji vam daje svojega Svetog Duha.
9O bratskoj ljubavi koja mora vladati među Božjim narodom ne moram vam ni pisati jer vas je sam Bog poučio da volite jedni druge. 10Vi zaista iskazujete veliku ljubav braći u cijeloj Makedoniji. Molimo vas ipak, draga braćo, da u tome još više napredujete. 11Trudite se mirno živjeti, baviti se svojim poslom i raditi vlastitim rukama, kako smo vam zapovjedili. 12Tako ćete časno živjeti pred nevjernicima i nitko vam neće trebati novčano pomagati.
Nada uskrsnuća
13Želim, braćo i sestre, da znate što će se dogoditi s umrlim kršćanima, da ne tugujete kao drugi koji nemaju nade. 14Vjerujemo da je Isus umro i uskrsnuo te da će Bog, kad Isus opet dođe, s Isusom dovesti i kršćane koji su usnuli u Isusu.
15Govorim vam ovo poučen izravno od Gospodina: oni od nas koji još budu živi kad se Gospodin vrati, neće preteći umrle. 16Sam će Gospodin sići s neba na zapovijed, na glas arhanđela, na zov Božje trublje. Najprije će uskrsnuti umrli u Kristu. 17Zatim će oni od nas koji još budu živi biti uzneseni u vis, na oblake, u susret Gospodinu, da s njime zauvijek ostanu. 18Tješite se međusobno tim riječima.
