1 Thessalonians 4:6
King James Version
6 Jun 2026
“That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.”
περί
properly, through (all over), i.e. around; figuratively with respect to; used in various applications, of place, cause or time (with the genitive case denoting the subject or occasion or superlative point; with the accusative case the locality, circuit, matter, circumstance or general period)
κύριος
Lord
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κύριος
Lord, master, owner. Kurios. Jesus is Lord. The foundational confession of Christianity. Lord means owner. To confess Jesus as Lord is to surrender ownership of your life.
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οὗτος
these things
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οὗτος
This, this one, this person. This is My Son whom I love. With Him I am well pleased. The words spoken over Jesus are spoken over you through your union with Him.
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πρᾶγμα
matter
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πρᾶγμα
a deed; by implication, an affair; by extension, an object (material)
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διαμαρτύρομαι
thoroughly warned.
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διαμαρτύρομαι
to attest or protest earnestly, or (by implication) hortatively
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πλεονεκτέω
to overreach
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πλεονεκτέω
to be covetous, i.e. (by implication) to over-reach
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ὑπερβαίνω
to go beyond
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ὑπερβαίνω
to transcend, i.e. (figuratively) to overreach
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διότι
because
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διότι
on the very account that, or inasmuch as
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ἔκδικος
avenging is
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ἔκδικος
carrying justice out, i.e. a punisher
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καθώς
even as
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καθώς
just (or inasmuch) as, that
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προέπω
we told before
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προέπω
to say already, to predict
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