1 Thessalonians 4:2
New International Version
For you know what instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

New Living Translation
For you remember what we taught you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

English Standard Version
For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

Berean Standard Bible
For you know the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

Berean Literal Bible
For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

King James Bible
For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

New King James Version
for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

New American Standard Bible
For you know what instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

NASB 1995
For you know what commandments we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

NASB 1977
For you know what commandments we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

Legacy Standard Bible
For you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

Amplified Bible
For you know what commandments and precepts we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

Christian Standard Bible
For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

American Standard Version
For ye know what charge we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For you know those commandments which we gave to you by our Lord Yeshua.

Contemporary English Version
Remember the instructions we gave you as followers of the Lord Jesus.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For you know what precepts I have given to you by the Lord Jesus.

English Revised Version
For ye know what charge we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
You know what orders we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

Good News Translation
For you know the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

International Standard Version
You know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

Literal Standard Version
for you have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus;

Majority Standard Bible
For you know the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

New American Bible
For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

NET Bible
For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

New Revised Standard Version
For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

New Heart English Bible
For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

Webster's Bible Translation
For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

Weymouth New Testament
For you know the commands which we laid upon you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

World English Bible
For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

Young's Literal Translation
for ye have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus,

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Context
Living to Please God
1Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more. 2For you know the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus. 3For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;…

Cross References
1 Thessalonians 4:1
Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more.

1 Thessalonians 4:3
For it is God's will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;


Treasury of Scripture

For you know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

Ezekiel 3:17
Son of man, I have made thee a watchman unto the house of Israel: therefore hear the word at my mouth, and give them warning from me.

Matthew 28:20
Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

1 Corinthians 9:21
To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.

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1 Thessalonians 4
1. He exhorts them to go forward in all manner of godliness;
6. to live holily and justly;
9. to love one another;
11. and quietly to follow their own business;
13. and last of all, to sorrow moderately for the dead.
17. followed by a brief description of the resurrection, and second coming of Christ to judgment.














(2) For ye know.--He calls on the Thessalonians' memory to support his statement, "ye received;" at the same time awakening their interest to catch the special point next to come, by laying stress on "what commandments."

By the Lord Jesus.--Not as if the Lord were the person who took the commandments from St. Paul to the Thessalonians, but the person by means of whose inspiration St. Paul was enabled to give such commandments.

Verse 2. - For ye know; appealing to their memory in confirmation of what he had said. What commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus; or, through the Lord Jesus; that is, not merely by his authority, but by means of him, so that these commandments did not proceed from Paul, but from the Lord Jesus himself. We have here, and indeed in this chapter throughout, an assertion of the inspiration of the apostle: the commandments which he gave to the Thessalonians were the commandments of the Lord Jesus.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
For
γὰρ (gar)
Conjunction
Strong's 1063: For. A primary particle; properly, assigning a reason.

you know
οἴδατε (oidate)
Verb - Perfect Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 1492: To know, remember, appreciate.

[the]
τίνας (tinas)
Interrogative / Indefinite Pronoun - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's 5101: Who, which, what, why. Probably emphatic of tis; an interrogative pronoun, who, which or what.

instructions
παραγγελίας (parangelias)
Noun - Accusative Feminine Plural
Strong's 3852: A command, charge, injunction; a precept, rule of living. From paraggello; a mandate.

we gave
ἐδώκαμεν (edōkamen)
Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 1st Person Plural
Strong's 1325: To offer, give; I put, place. A prolonged form of a primary verb; to give.

you
ὑμῖν (hymin)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Dative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

by the authority of
διὰ (dia)
Preposition
Strong's 1223: A primary preposition denoting the channel of an act; through.

the
τοῦ (tou)
Article - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

Lord
Κυρίου (Kyriou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2962: Lord, master, sir; the Lord. From kuros; supreme in authority, i.e. controller; by implication, Master.

Jesus.
Ἰησοῦ (Iēsou)
Noun - Genitive Masculine Singular
Strong's 2424: Of Hebrew origin; Jesus, the name of our Lord and two other Israelites.


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