1 Thessalonians 4:2

International Standard Version

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

Parallel Translations

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

King James Version (1611)
For yee know what commandements wee gaue you, by the Lord Iesus.

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

English Standard Version
For you know what instructions 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.

New Century Version
You know what we told you to do by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
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.

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

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

Complete Jewish Bible
For you know what instructions we gave you on the authority of the Lord Yeshua.

Darby Translation
For ye know what charges we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

Easy-to-Read Version
You know all that we told you to do by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For ye knowe what commaundements we gaue you by the Lord Iesus.

George Lamsa Translation
For you know what commandments we gave you by our LORD Jesus.

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

Lexham English Bible
For you know what commands we gave to you through the Lord Jesus.

Literal Translation
For you know what injunctions 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.

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

Bible in Basic English
Because you have in mind the orders we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

Hebrew Names Version
For you know what charge we gave you through the Lord Yeshua.

Etheridge Translation
For you know those precepts we gave to you in our Lord Jeshu Meshiha.

Murdock Translation
For ye know what command we gave you in our Lord Jesus the Messiah.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For ye knowe what commaundementes we gaue you by the Lorde Iesus.

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

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

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For ye witen what comaundementis Y haue youun to you bi the Lord Jhesu.

Update Bible Version
For you know what charge we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

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

New English Translation
For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

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

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

New Life Bible
The Lord Jesus gave us the right and the power to tell you what to do.

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

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For ye know what charges we gave you, through the Lord Jesus.

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

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

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Ye remember what commaundmetes we gave you in oure lorde Iesu Christ.

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

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For ye knowe what commaundementes we gaue you by oure LORDE Iesus Christ.

Mace New Testament (1729)
for you know the precepts we gave you in the name of the Lord Jesus.

Simplified Cowboy Version
Y'all know everything we taught was straight from the Lord. Do it our way and you'll be doing it God's way.

Contextual Overview

¹ Now then, brothers, you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God, as in fact you are doing. We ask and encourage you in the Lord to do so even more.Philippians 1:27; Colossians 1:10; 2:6; 1 Thessalonians 2:12;">[xr] ² You know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. ³ For it is God's will that you be sanctified: You must abstain from sexual immorality;Romans 12:2; 1 Corinthians 6:15,18; Ephesians 5:3,17, 27; Colossians 3:5;">[xr] ⁴ each of you must know how to control his own bodyvessel">[fn] in holiness and honor,Romans 6:19; 1 Corinthians 6:15,18;">[xr] ⁵ not with passion and lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;Romans 1:24,26; 1 Corinthians 15:34; Galatians 4:8; Ephesians 2:12; 4:17-18; Colossians 3:5; 2 Thessalonians 1:8;">[xr] ⁶ and you must never take advantage of or exploit a brother in this regard. For the Lord is an avenger in all these things, just as we already told you and warned you.Leviticus 19:11,13; 1 Corinthians 6:8; 2 Thessalonians 1:8;">[xr] ⁷ For God did not call us to impurity but to holiness.Leviticus 11:44; 19:2; 1 Corinthians 1:2; Hebrews 12:14; 1 Peter 1:14-15;">[xr] ⁸ Therefore, whoever rejects this instructioninstruction">[fn] is not rejecting human authority but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.Luke 10:16; 1 Corinthians 2:10; 7:40; 1 John 3:24;">[xr]

Bible Verse Review
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Ezekiel 3:17, Matthew 28:20, 1 Corinthians 9:21, 2 Thessalonians 3:6, 2 Thessalonians 3:10

Reciprocal: Exodus 18:16 - make Leviticus 10:11 - General Leviticus 22:31 - General Deuteronomy 4:5 - General Deuteronomy 8:1 - General Deuteronomy 11:32 - General Deuteronomy 13:4 - walk Deuteronomy 17:12 - the priest Deuteronomy 27:1 - Keep all 1 Kings 9:4 - And if thou 2 Chronicles 30:12 - the commandment Ezra 7:6 - the law Job 22:22 - receive Psalms 119:1 - walk Psalms 143:10 - Teach Ezekiel 33:7 - thou shalt Matthew 11:1 - commanding Matthew 11:29 - my 1 Corinthians 1:10 - by the 1 Corinthians 11:2 - keep 1 Corinthians 11:23 - I have Ephesians 4:1 - walk Ephesians 4:17 - in the Colossians 3:17 - in the 1 Thessalonians 2:3 - General 1 Thessalonians 4:1 - by the 2 Thessalonians 3:4 - that 1 Timothy 6:3 - the words 1 Peter 2:21 - even 2 Peter 2:21 - holy 1 John 2:3 - if we

Cross-References

Luke 11:51
from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who died between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be charged against this generation!Genesis 4:8; 2 Chronicles 24:20-21;">[xr]

John 8:44
You belong to your father the devil, and you want to carry out the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and has never stood by the truth,stood by the truth">[fn] since there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a lie he speaks in character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.Matthew 13:38; 1 John 3:8; Jude 1:6;">[xr]

1 John 3:10
This is how God's children and the devil's children are distinguished.are revealed">[fn] No person who fails to practice righteousness and to love his brother is from God.1 John 2:29; 4:8;">[xr]

1 John 3:12
Do not be like Cain,Not like Cain">[fn] who was from the evil one and murdered his brother. And why did he murder him? Because his own deeds were evil and his brother's were righteous.Genesis 4:4,8; Hebrews 11:4; Jude 1:11;">[xr]

1 John 3:15
Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life remaining in him.Matthew 5:21-22; Galatians 5:21; 1 John 4:20; Revelation 21:8;">[xr]

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For ye know what commandments we gave you,.... When among them; such as those of faith and love, the ordinances of the Gospel, baptism, and the Lord's supper, and all such as relate to the worship and service of God, to the discipline of Christ's house, to their behaviour one towards another, and their conduct in the world: and which were delivered to them, not as from themselves, and by their own authority, but

by the Lord Jesus; in his name, and by his authority, and as ordered by him; for their commission ran to teach men all things, whatsoever Christ commanded: now since they knew what these commandments were, and whose they were, and the obligation they lay under to regard them, the apostle makes use of it as a reason or argument to engage them to obedience to them; for he that knows his Lord's will, and does it not, shall be beaten with many stripes, Luke 12:47.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For ye know what commandments - It was but a short time since Paul was with them, and they could not but recollect the rules of living which he had laid down.

By the Lord Jesus - By the authority of the Lord Jesus. Some of those rules, or commandments, the apostle refers to, probably, in the following verses.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Thessalonians 4:2. Ye know what commandments we gave you — This refers to his instructions while he was among them; and to instructions on particular subjects, which he does not recapitulate, but only hints at.