Scofield Reference Bible Notes
1 Thessalonians 4

1Th 4:1 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.

beseech

Or, request.

exhort

Or, beseech.

to walk and to please God

Col 1:10.

abound more and more

1Co 15:58.

1Th 4:3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

abstain from fornication

1Co 6:15, 18.

1Th 4:5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

Gentiles

Eph 4:17-18.

1Th 4:6 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.

defraud

Or, oppress, or, overreach.

in any

Or, in the.

1Th 4:7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

unto holiness

Lev 11:44; Heb 12:14; 1Pe 1:14, 16.

1Th 4:8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.

despiseth

Or, rejecteth.

holy Spirit

Holy Spirit (N.T.). 1Th 5:19. (Mat 1:18; Act 2:4.)

1Th 4:9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

taught of God to love one another

Jhn 15:12, 17.

1Th 4:11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

to do your own business

1Pe 4:15.

1Th 4:12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.

honestly toward them

1Pe 2:12.

1Th 4:13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

asleep

fallen asleep.

1Th 4:14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

believe

Faith. 2Th 2:11-12. (Gen 3:20; Heb 11:39.)

rose again

Resurrection. 1Th 4:13-17; 2Ti 2:18. (Job 19:25; 1 Cor 15:52.)

them also which sleep

1Co 15:20.

1Th 4:15 For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.

prevent

precede.

1Th 4:16 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:

the Lord himself shall descend from heaven

Christ (Second Advent). 1Th 4:14-17; 1Co 15:23, 51-52. (Deu 30:3; Acts 1:9-11.)

Christ shall rise first

Rev 20:5-6.

1Th 4:17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

we which are alive and remain

1Co 15:51.

caught up together

Not church saints only, but all bodies of the saved, of whatever dispensation, are included in the first resurrection (see Scofield 1 Corinthians 15:52, note), as here described, but it is peculiarly the "blessed hope" of the Church (cf. Mat 24:42; 25:13; Luk 12:36-48; Act 1:11; Phl 3:20-21; Tit 2:11-13).

with them in the clouds

Churches (local). Heb 12:23. (Act 2:41; Phl 1:1).

be with the Lord

Jhn 14:3.