OrthJBC - I Thessalonians - 4

4:1  Lemaskana (finally), Achim b'Moshiach, we ask and exhort you in Adoneinu Yehoshua, in order that, just as you received (as authoritative tradition) from us how it is necessary for you to fier zich (comport oneself) in your derech (way of life) and to please Hashem (just as you in fact are carrying on your hitnahagut), so you should abound more and more.

4:2  For you know what mitzvot (commandments) we gave you through [Moshiach] Adoneinu Yehoshua.

4:3  For this is the ratson Hashem (the will of G-d), your kedusha (holiness), your consecration, that you abstain from zenut (fornication),

4:4  that each one of you [as kedoshim] have da'as of how to control your own k'li (vessel) in kedusha and kavod,

4:5  not in the passion of ta'avah (evil desire/lust) like Goyim who do not have da'as of Hashem;

4:6  that no man commit pesha and take advantage of one of his Achim b'Moshiach in this [sexual] matter, because Hashem is the Nokem (Avenger) concerning all these things, just as also we told you before and warned you.

4:7  For [as far as our bechirah (election) is concerned], Hashem did not summon us for (sexual) tu'ma (uncleanness) but in kedusha (holiness).

4:8  Therefore, the one rejecting this mitzvah (commandment) does not reject man but Hashem who gives to you His Ruach Hakodesh.

4:9  Concerning the matter of ahavah shel achvah (brotherly love), you have no need that we write you, for you yourselves are limudei Elohim (taught of G-d) to have ahavah (agape) one to another.

4:10  For indeed this you do toward all the Achim b'Moshiach in all of Macedonia. But in this we exhort you, Chaverim, to abound more and more. YOSHEVIM NEED A PARNASAH IF THEY ARE NOT SUPPORTING THEIR MISHPOCHAH

4:11  And have as your ambition to lead a quiet life of shalom bayis, and to mind your own business, and to have a parnasah, working with your own hands, according to the mitzvot (commandments) we gave you.

4:12  The tachlis is that the way your fier zich (comport oneself) in your derech (way of life) be conducted properly toward outsiders and that you might not be nitzrach (needy). THE BIAS MOSHIACH: WILL ANY MA'AMINIM BE LEFT OUT?

4:13  We do not want you lack da'as, chaverim, concerning those who have "fallen asleep." The tachlis is that you not have agmat nefesh (grief) like the rest, who do not have tikvah.

4:14  For, if we have an Ani Maamin belief that Yehoshua died and then stood up alive again in Moshiach's techiyas hamesim, even so, Hashem will bring with Him [Moshiach] those who have fallen asleep through Yehoshua.

4:15  For this we say to you by the Dvar Hashem, that we who are alive and have been left behind until the Bias Moshiach Adoneinu, may in no way be kodem (preceding) those who have fallen asleep.

4:16  For Adoneinu Himself, at the signal, at the voice of the Sar haMalachim (the Archangel), and at the shofar blast of Hashem, shall come down from Shomayim (heaven); and the mesim in Moshiach shall rise from the dead first.

4:17  Then [next in sequence], we who are alive and who have been left behind simultaneously with them shall be snatched up in the ananim (clouds) to meet Adoneinu in the air. And so always with Adoneinu we shall be.

4:18  Therefore, give chozek (strength) and speak divrei chizuk (words of encouragement), comforting one another with these words.