Furthermore
then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by
the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us
how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye
would abound more and more.
02 For ye know what commandments we gave you by
the Lord Jesus.
03 For this is the will of God, even your
sanctification, that ye should abstain from
fornication:
04 That every one of you should know how to
possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
05 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the
Gentiles which know not God:
06 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.
07 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness,
but unto holiness.
08 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not
man, but God, who hath also given unto us his
holy Spirit.
09 But as touching brotherly love ye need not
that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are
taught of God to love one another.
10 And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren
which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you,
brethren, that ye increase more and more;
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11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your
own business, and to work with your own hands, as
we commanded you;
12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are
without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
13 But I would not have you to be ignorant,
brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that
ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose
again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus
will God bring with him.
15 For this we say unto you by the word of the
Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the
coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which
are asleep.
16 For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven
with a shout, with the voice of the archangel,
and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ
shall rise first:
17 Then we which are alive and remain shall be
caught up together with them in the clouds, to
meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be
with the Lord.
18 Wherefore comfort one another with these
words.
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