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.
Obulamu obusanyusa Katonda
14:1 a 2Ko 13:11 b 2Ko 5:9Noolwekyo abooluganda, ekisembayo, tubeegayirira nga tubazzaamu amaanyi mu Mukama waffe Yesu, nti nga bwe twababuulirira bwe kibagwanira okutambula n’okusanyusa Katonda, era nga bwe mukola bwe mutyo, mugende mu maaso okukolanga bwe mutyo n’okusingawo. 2Kubanga mumanyi ebiragiro bye twabawa mu Mukama waffe Yesu.
34:3 1Ko 6:18Kubanga Katonda ayagala mutukuzibwe, era mwewalenga obwenzi, 44:4 1Ko 7:2, 9buli omu ku mmwe amanyenga okufuga omubiri gwe mu butukuvu n’ekitiibwa, 54:5 a Bar 1:26 b Bef 4:17so si mu kwegomba okw’obukaba ng’abamawanga abatamanyi Katonda bwe bakola. 64:6 a 1Ko 6:8 b Beb 13:4Mu nsonga eyo walemenga okubaawo ayingirira muganda we, newaakubadde amusobyako, kubanga Mukama yawoolera eggwanga mu nsonga zino. Ebintu bino byonna twabibagamba dda era ne tubawa n’obujulirwa. 74:7 Lv 11:44; 1Pe 1:15Kubanga Katonda teyatuyitira bugwenyufu wabula yatuyitira kutukuzibwa. 84:8 Bar 5:5; Bag 4:6Noolwekyo anyooma bino aba tanyoomye muntu wabula Katonda, atuwa Omwoyo we Omutukuvu.
94:9 a Bar 12:10 b 1Bs 5:1 c Yk 13:34Kaakano ku bikwata ku kwagalana kw’abooluganda sseetaaga kubibawandiikirako, kubanga mmwe mwennyini mwayigirizibwa Katonda okwagalananga. 104:10 a 1Bs 1:7 b 1Bs 3:12Kubanga ddala bwe mutyo bwe mwagala abooluganda bonna ab’omu Makedoniya, naye era abooluganda, tubakuutira mweyongere okubaagalanga. 114:11 Bef 4:28; 2Bs 3:10-12Mubeerenga bakkakkamu, nga temweyingiza mu by’abalala, era mukolenga emirimu gyammwe nga bwe twabakuutira, 12mutambule nga mwegendereza eri abatakkiriza, mube nga mwemalirira mu buli nsonga.
Okujja kwa Mukama waffe
13Kaakano, abooluganda tetwagala mmwe obutategeera eby’abo abafu, ne munakuwala ng’abalala abatalina ssuubi. 144:14 1Ko 15:18Kubanga bwe tukkiriza nti Yesu yafa era n’azuukira mu bafu bwe tutyo tukkiriza nti Katonda alikomyawo wamu naye abo abaafira mu Yesu. 154:15 1Ko 15:52Kubanga ekyo kye tubategeeza mu kigambo kya Mukama waffe, nga ffe abalamu, abaasigalawo okutuusa okujja kwa Mukama waffe tetulisooka abaafa. 164:16 a Mat 24:31 b 1Ko 15:23; 2Bs 2:1Kubanga Mukama waffe yennyini alikka okuva mu ggulu n’eddoboozi ery’omwanguka, eddoboozi lya malayika omukulu nga liwulirwa, n’ekkondeere lya Katonda, n’abo abaafiira mu Kristo be balisooka okuzuukira, 174:17 a 1Ko 15:52 b Bik 1:9; Kub 11:12 c Yk 12:26naffe abalamu abaasigalawo ne tulyoka tubeegattako, ne tusitulibwa mu bire okusisinkana Mukama waffe mu bbanga; bwe tutyo tunaabeeranga ne Mukama waffe ennaku zonna. 18Kale buli omu agumyenga munne n’ebigambo ebyo.
