1 Thessalonians 5

1 Thessalonians 5:1-11

¹But concerning the times and the seasons, brothers, you have no need that anything be written to you. ²For you yourselves know well that the day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night. ³For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape. ⁴But you, brothers, aren’t in darkness, that the day should overtake you like a thief. ⁵You are all children of light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night, nor to darkness, ⁶so then let’s not sleep, as the rest do, but let’s watch and be sober. ⁷For those who sleep, sleep in the night; and those who are drunk are drunk in the night. ⁸But since we belong to the day, let’s be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and for a helmet, the hope of salvation. ⁹For God didn’t appoint us to wrath, but to the obtaining of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, ¹⁰who died for us, that, whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him. ¹¹Therefore exhort one another, and build each other up, even as you also do.

The day of the Lord comes like a thief amid cries of peace and safety, but children of light watch soberly in faith, love, and hope of salvation; God appointed them not to wrath but to salvation through Jesus so that waking or sleeping they live with Him—therefore exhort and build one another up.

1 Thessalonians 5:12-13

¹²But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord and admonish you, ¹³and to respect and honor them in love for their work’s sake. Be at peace among yourselves.

Paul urges them to know, respect, and honor in love those who labor among them, are over them in the Lord, and admonish them, and to be at peace among themselves.

1 Thessalonians 5:14-15

¹⁴We exhort you, brothers: Admonish the disorderly; encourage the faint-hearted; support the weak; be patient toward all. ¹⁵See that no one returns evil for evil to anyone, but always follow after that which is good for one another and for all.

The church must admonish the disorderly, encourage the faint-hearted, support the weak, be patient with all, refuse retaliation, and always pursue what is good for one another and for all.

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18

¹⁶Always rejoice. ¹⁷Pray without ceasing. ¹⁸In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

Always rejoice, pray without ceasing, and in everything give thanks—for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

1 Thessalonians 5:19-22

¹⁹Don’t quench the Spirit. ²⁰Don’t despise prophecies. ²¹Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good. ²²Abstain from every form of evil.

Do not quench the Spirit or despise prophecies; test everything, hold firmly what is good, and abstain from every form of evil.

1 Thessalonians 5:23-24

²³May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. ²⁴He who calls you is faithful, who will also do it.

May the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely and preserve your whole spirit, soul, and body blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; He who calls you is faithful and will also do it.

1 Thessalonians 5:25

²⁵Brothers, pray for us.

Paul simply asks the brothers to pray for him and his coworkers.

1 Thessalonians 5:26-27

²⁶Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss. ²⁷I solemnly command you by the Lord that this letter be read to all the holy brothers.

Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss, and Paul solemnly commands that the letter be read to all the holy brothers.

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