1 Thessalonians 4:2

Young's Literal Translation

for ye have known what commands 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.

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

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.

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 As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more, ² for ye have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus, ³ for this is the will of God -- your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom, ⁴ that each of you know his own vessel to possess in sanctification and honour, ⁵ not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God, ⁶ that no one go beyond and defraud in the matter his brother, because an avenger [is] the Lord of all these, as also we spake before to you and testified, ⁷ for God did not call us on uncleanness, but in sanctification; ⁸ he, therefore, who is despising -- doth not despise man, but God, who also did give His Holy Spirit to us.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

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

Genesis 3:23
Jehovah God sendeth him forth from the garden of Eden to serve the ground from which he hath been taken;

Genesis 4:25
And Adam again knoweth his wife, and she beareth a son, and calleth his name Seth, `for God hath appointed for me another seed instead of Abel:' for Cain had slain him.

Genesis 4:26
And to Seth, to him also a son hath been born, and he calleth his name Enos; then a beginning was made of preaching in the name of Jehovah.

Genesis 9:20
And Noah remaineth a man of the ground, and planteth a vineyard,

Genesis 37:13
and Israel saith unto Joseph, `Are not thy brethren feeding in Shechem? come, and I send thee unto them;' and he saith to him, `Here [am] I;'

Genesis 47:3
and Pharaoh saith unto his brethren, `What [are] your works?' and they say unto Pharaoh, `Thy servants [are] feeders of a flock, both we and our fathers;'

Exodus 3:1
And Moses hath been feeding the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, priest of Midian, and he leadeth the flock behind the wilderness, and cometh in unto the mount of God, to Horeb;

Psalms 127:3
Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah [are] sons, A reward [is] the fruit of the womb.

Amos 7:15
and Jehovah taketh me from after the flock, and Jehovah saith unto me, Go, prophesy unto My people Israel.

Luke 11:51
from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the house; yes, I say to you, It shall be required from this generation.

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.