Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version
Book of 1 Thessalonians
Chapter 4  -  Read Chapter
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 4:4 GEB -> Study Notes on 4:4 JFB -> Commentary on 4:4 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 4:4 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 4:4 PNT -> Commentary on 4:4 RWP -> Study Notes on 4:4 TSK -> Commentary on 4:4 TSK -> Entry for 4:4 WEN -> Notes on 4:4 NTB -> Adultery; Blindness; Gentiles; Holiness; Sanctification TTT -> Sanctification SBD -> Thessalonians, First Epistle to the PWP -> Devotional using 4:4 4:4 - [In Context] God wants each one of you to learn to control your own body. Use your body in a way that is holy and that gives honor to God. F13
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 4:5 GEB -> Study Notes on 4:5 JFB -> Commentary on 4:5 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 4:5 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 4:5 PNT -> Commentary on 4:5 RWP -> Study Notes on 4:5 TSK -> Commentary on 4:5 TSK -> Entry for 4:5 WEN -> Notes on 4:5 NTB -> Adultery; Affections; Blindness; Commandments; Lasciviousness TTT -> Affections, The; Gentiles; Ignorance of God; Jews, The EBD -> Concupiscence SBD -> Thessalonians, First Epistle to the PWP -> Devotional using 4:5 4:5 - [In Context] Don't let your physical desires control you. The people of the world who don't know God do that.
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 4:6 GEB -> Study Notes on 4:6 JFB -> Commentary on 4:6 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 4:6 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 4:6 PNT -> Commentary on 4:6 RWP -> Study Notes on 4:6 TSK -> Commentary on 4:6 TSK -> Entry for 4:6 WEN -> Notes on 4:6 NTB -> Commandments; Dishonesty TTT -> Injustice SBD -> Thessalonians, First Epistle to the PWP -> Devotional using 4:6 4:6 - [In Context] None of you should do wrong to your brother {in Christ} or cheat him in this way. The Lord will punish people that do those things. We have already told you and warned you about that.
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 4:7 GEB -> Study Notes on 4:7 JFB -> Commentary on 4:7 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 4:7 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 4:7 PNT -> Commentary on 4:7 RWP -> Study Notes on 4:7 TSK -> Commentary on 4:7 TSK -> Entry for 4:7 WEN -> Notes on 4:7 NTB -> Adultery; Chastity; Holiness; Injustice TTT -> Call of God, The; Chastity; Holiness SBD -> Thessalonians, First Epistle to the PWP -> Devotional using 4:7 TV -> Devotional using 4:7 TV -> Devotional using 4:7 4:7 - [In Context] God called us to be holy. He does not want us to live in sin.
Study Resource List BCC -> Commentary on 4:8 GEB -> Study Notes on 4:8 JFB -> Commentary on 4:8 MHC-COM -> Commentary on 4:8 MHC-CON -> Commentary on 4:8 PNT -> Commentary on 4:8 RWP -> Study Notes on 4:8 TSK -> Commentary on 4:8 TSK -> Entry for 4:8 WEN -> Notes on 4:8 NTB -> Holy Spirit TTT -> Contempt SBD -> Thessalonians, First Epistle to the TV -> Devotional using 4:8 TV -> Devotional using 4:8 4:8 - [In Context] So the person who refuses to obey this teaching is refusing to obey God, not man. And God is the One who gives you his Holy Spirit. F14
FOOTNOTES: F13: God wants … honor to God   Or, God wants each of you to learn to live with your wife in a way that is holy and that gives honor to God. F14: Spirit, Holy Spirit   Also called the Spirit of God, the Spirit of Christ, and the Comforter. Joined with God and Christ, he does God's work among people in the world.

Abbreviations Legend: BCC - Burton Coffman; GEB - Gill's Exposition; JFB - Jamieson, Fausset, Brown; MHC-COM - Matthew Henry Complete; MHC-CON - Matthew Henry Concise; PNT - People's New Testament; RWP - Robertson's Word Pictures; TSK - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge; WEN - Wesley's Explanatory Notes; NTB - Nave's Topical Bible; TSK - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge; TTT - Torrey's Topical Textbook; EBD - Easton's Bible Dictionary; SBD - Smith's Bible Dictionary; TV - Today's Verse; PWP - Praying With Paul; Copyright Statement - Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version © 2001 by World Bible Translation Center, Inc. and used by permission.