¹A tak ostatne, bratia, prosíme vás a napomíname v Pánu Ježišovi, aby ste v tom, ako ste prijali od nás, ako sa máte chovať a ľúbiť sa Bohu, jako sa aj chováte, aby ste v tom ešte väčšmi hojneli.

¹As 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,

²Lebo viete, ktoré príkazy sme vám dali skrze Pána Ježiša.

²for ye have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus,

³Lebo to je vôľa Božia - vaše posvätenie, aby ste sa zdŕžali od smilstva,

³for this is the will of God — your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

⁴aby jeden každý z vás vedel zaobchodiť so svojou nádobou v posvätení a v česti,

⁴that each of you know his own vessel to possess in sanctification and honour,

⁵nie v náruživosti žiadosti jako aj pohania, ktorí neznajú Boha,

⁵not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

⁶aby neprekračoval a nekoristil vo veci svojho brata, pretože je Pán pomstiteľom všetkého toho, jako sme vám už aj prv povedali a osvedčili.

⁶that 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,

⁷Lebo nepovolal nás Bôh nato, aby sme žili v nečistote, ale v posvätení.

⁷for God did not call us on uncleanness, but in sanctification;

⁸Preto v tedy, kto opovrhuje, neopovrhuje človekom, ale Bohom, ktorý aj dáva svojho Svätého Ducha do nás.

⁸he, therefore, who is despising — doth not despise man, but God, who also did give His Holy Spirit to us.

⁹A o bratskej láske vám netreba písať, lebo vy ste sami vyučení od Boha, aby ste sa milovali navzájom.

⁹And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of [my] writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,

¹⁰Lebo to aj činíte všetkým bratom v celej Macedonii. Ale vás napomíname, bratia, aby ste v tom ešte viac hojneli.

¹⁰for ye do it also to all the brethren who [are] in all Macedonia; and we call upon you, brethren, to abound still more,

¹¹A snažte sa všemožne byť ticho a konať svoje a pracovať svojimi vlastnými rukami, tak ako sme vám prikázali,

¹¹and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,

¹²aby ste sa chovali slušne pred tými, ktorí sú vonku, a nepotrebovali nikoho.

¹²that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.

¹³Ale nechceme, bratia, aby ste nevedeli o tých, ktorí zosnuli, aby ste sa nermútili jako aj ostatní, ktorí nemajú nádeje.

¹³And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope,

¹⁴Lebo ak veríme, že Ježiš zomrel i vstal z mŕtvych, tak i Bôh tých, ktorí zosnuli, skrze Ježiša privedie s ním.

¹⁴for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also God those asleep through Jesus he will bring with him,

¹⁵Lebo to vám hovoríme slovom Pánovým, že my živí, ponechaní do príchodu Pánovho, istotne nepredstihneme tých, ktorí zosnuli.

¹⁵for this to you we say in the word of the Lord, that we who are living — who do remain over to the presence of the Lord — may not precede those asleep,

¹⁶Lebo sám Pán s veliteľským povelom, s hlasom archanjela a s trúbou Božou sostúpi s neba, a mŕtvi v Kristu vstanú najprv;

¹⁶because the Lord himself, in a shout, in the voice of a chief-messenger, and in the trump of God, shall come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first,

¹⁷potom my živí ponechaní budeme razom s nimi vychvátení v oblakoch v ústrety Pánovi do povetria. A takto budeme vždycky s Pánom.

¹⁷then we who are living, who are remaining over, together with them shall be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in air, and so always with the Lord we shall be;

¹⁸Takže sa potešujte navzájom týmito slovami.

¹⁸so, then, comfort ye one another in these words.