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4:1
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弟兄们，我还有话说：我们靠着主耶稣求你们，劝你们，你们既然受了我们的教训，知道该怎样行可以讨神的喜悦，就要照你们现在所行的更加勉励。
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Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk, --that ye abound more and more.
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4:2
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你们原晓得我们凭主耶稣传给你们什么命令。
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For ye know what charge we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
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4:3
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神的旨意就是要你们成为圣洁，远避淫行；
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For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;
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4:4
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要你们各人晓得怎样用圣洁、尊贵守着自己的身体。
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that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
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4:5
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不放纵私欲的邪情，像那不认识神的外邦人。
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not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;
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4:6
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不要一个人在这事上越分，欺负他的弟兄；因为这一类的事，主必报应，正如我预先对你们说过，又切切嘱咐你们的。
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that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in the matter: because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.
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4:7
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神召我们，本不是要我们沾染污秽，乃是要我们成为圣洁。
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For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
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4:8
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所以那弃绝的，不是弃绝人，乃是弃绝那赐圣灵给你们的神。
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Therefore he that rejecteth, rejecteth not man, but God, who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you.
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4:9
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论到弟兄们相爱，不用人写信给你们；因为你们自己蒙了神的教训，叫你们彼此相爱。
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But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another;
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4:10
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你们向马其顿全地的众弟兄固然是这样行，但我劝弟兄们要更加勉励。
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for indeed ye do it toward all the brethren that are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, that ye abound more and more;
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4:11
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又要立志作安静人，办自己的事，亲手做工，正如我们从前所吩咐你们的，
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and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you;
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4:12
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叫你们可以向外人行事端正，自己也就没有什么缺乏了。
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that ye may walk becomingly toward them that are without, and may have need of nothing.
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4:13
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论到睡了的人，我们不愿意弟兄们不知道，恐怕你们忧伤，像那些没有指望的人一样。
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But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, who have no hope.
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4:14
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我们若信耶稣死而复活了，那已经在耶稣里睡了的人，神也必将他与耶稣一同带来。
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For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
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4:15
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我们现在照主的话告诉你们一件事：我们这活着还存留到主降临的人，断不能在那已经睡了的人之先。
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For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we that are alive, that are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them that are fallen asleep.
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4:16
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因为主必亲自从天降临，有呼叫的声音和天使长的声音，又有神的号吹响；那在基督里死了的人必先复活。
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For 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;
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4:17
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以后我们这活着还存留的人必和他们一同被提到云里，在空中与主相遇。这样，我们就要和主永远同在。
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then we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
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4:18
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所以，你们当用这些话彼此劝慰。
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Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
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