Further, then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus that, as ye received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as also ye do walk, ye abound still more.
For ye know what charges we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
For this is [the] will of God, your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;
that each of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honour,
not in passion of lust, even as also the Gentiles that know not God;
that he should not over-reach and wrong his brother in the matter; because the Lord is an avenger in respect of all these things, even as we told you before and fully testified.
For God called us not for uncleanness but in sanctification.
Wherefore then he that disregardeth disregardeth not man but God that [also] gave his Holy Spirit unto you.
Now concerning brotherly love, ye have no need that we write to you; for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another;
for, indeed, ye do it toward all the brethren that are in the whole of Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, that ye abound still more,
and that ye make it your aim to be quiet and mind your own affairs and work with your own hands, even as we charged you,
that ye may walk honourably toward those without, and may have need of nothing.
But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those that fall asleep; that ye be not grieved even as the rest also that have no hope.
For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also those put to sleep through Jesus will God bring with him.
For this we say to you in [the] word of [the] Lord, that we, the living that remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede those put to sleep;
because the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout of command, with archangel’s voice, and with trump of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first;
then we, the living that remain, shall be caught up together with them in clouds to meet [the] Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
So then encourage one another with these words.