Bible Study Questions about 1 Thessalonians 4

4:1 What had the ‘brothers and sisters’ learned? What had they been doing? What did the writers ‘ask and urge’ them to do? What was the basic reason for that?

4:2 What did the readers know? Where had those instructions come from?

4:3 What does God want? What do you learn about sex? What will you do because you know that?

4:4 What should each person know? Why might people need to ‘rule’ their body?

4:5 What should they not allow? Why?

4:6 What things does the writer warn about? Why might that have been necessary? What do you think about all this? What will you do because you know that?

4:7 What does God want? What do you think about that?

4:8 What will happen if the readers ‘refuse this teaching’? Why would they want to do what the writers propose? From whom might the readers receive help?

4:9 About what do the writers not need to write? Why is that? What will you do because you know that?

4:10 What ‘is a fact’? What do the writers urge the readers to do? What do you think about that?

4:11 What should the readers try hard to do? What should they do to get funds for that? What might you do about that?

4:12 Make a list of the results. How would the readers earn those results? (Look at verse 11 also.)

4:13 About what truth did the writers want them to know? What would be the result of that knowledge? What do you think about that?

4:14 Make a list of the things that ‘we believe’. What does that mean for you and for your family?

4:15 What has the Lord told us? What do you think about that?

4:16 Make a list of the things that will happen. Describe what might happen in your community at that time.

4:17 Make a list of the things will happen after that. Use your own words to express this. What might that experience be like?

4:18 What must we do? How will you do that? With whom will you do it?