Living to Please God

1TH 4:1

KJV

Furthermore 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.

BSB

Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more.

Koinōnos

Finally then, brothers, we implore you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that — even as you received from us in what manner it behooves you to walk and to please God, even as also you walk now — that you may abound more.

1TH 4:2

KJV

For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

BSB

For you know the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

Koinōnos

For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

1TH 4:3

KJV

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

BSB

For it is Godʼs will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;

Koinōnos

For this is the will of God: your sanctification — that you abstain from sexual immorality;

1TH 4:4

KJV

That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

BSB

each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,

Koinōnos

that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in holiness and honor,

1TH 4:5

KJV

Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

BSB

not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;

Koinōnos

not in the passion of lust, as also the Gentiles who do not know God;

1TH 4:6

KJV

That 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.

BSB

and no one should ever violate or exploit his brother in this regard, because the Lord will avenge all such acts, as we have already told you and solemnly warned you.

Koinōnos

not to go beyond and overreach his brother in the matter — because the Lord is the avenger concerning all these things, even as also we told you beforehand and thoroughly warned you.

1TH 4:7

KJV

For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

BSB

For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.

Koinōnos

For God has not called us to impurity, but into holiness.

1TH 4:8

KJV

He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.

BSB

Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.

Koinōnos

So then, the one rejecting this disregards not man but God, the One giving also His Holy Spirit into you.

1TH 4:9

KJV

But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

BSB

Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.

Koinōnos

Concerning now brotherly love, you have no need for me to write to you; for you yourselves are taught by God in order to love one another.

1TH 4:10

KJV

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;

BSB

And you are indeed showing this love to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to excel more and more

Koinōnos

And indeed you are doing this toward all the brothers in all Macedonia. We exhort you, however, brothers, to abound more.

1TH 4:11

KJV

And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

BSB

and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.

Koinōnos

and to make it your ambition to live quietly, and to attend to your own things, and to work with your own hands, even as we commanded you,

1TH 4:12

KJV

That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.

BSB

Then you will behave properly toward outsiders, without being dependent on anyone.

Koinōnos

so that you may walk properly toward those outside, and may have need of no one.