Darby Bible Translation

New American Standard Bible

Live to Please God

For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in [the] Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.

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Sanctification and Love

Finally then, brethren, we request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us instruction as to how you ought to walk and please God (just as you actually do walk), that you excel still more.

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For ye know what charges we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

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For you know what commandments we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

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For this is [the] will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;

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For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality;

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

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that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

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(not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God,)

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not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;

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not overstepping the rights of and wronging his brother in the matter, because the Lord [is] the avenger of all these things, even as we also told you before, and have fully testified.

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and that no man transgress and defraud his brother in the matter because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also told you before and solemnly warned you.

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For God has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.

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For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but in sanctification.

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He therefore that [in this] disregards [his brother], disregards, not man, but God, who has given also his Holy Spirit to you.

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So, he who rejects this is not rejecting man but the God who gives His Holy Spirit to you.

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Now concerning brotherly love ye have no need that we should write to you, for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

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Now as to the love of the brethren, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another;

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For also ye do this towards all the brethren in the whole of Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound still more,

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for indeed you do practice it toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, to excel still more,

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and to seek earnestly to be quiet and mind your own affairs, and work with your [own] hands, even as we charged you,

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and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life and attend to your own business and work with your hands, just as we commanded you,

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that ye may walk reputably towards those without, and may have need of no one.

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so that you will behave properly toward outsiders and not be in any need.

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The Return of the Lord

But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are fallen asleep, to the end that ye be not grieved even as also the rest who have no hope.

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Those Who Died in Christ

But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren, about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have no hope.

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For if we believe that Jesus has died and has risen again, so also God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.

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For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

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(For this we say to you in [the] word of [the] Lord, that *we*, the living, who remain to the coming of the Lord, are in no way to anticipate those who have fallen asleep;

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For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.

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for the Lord himself, with an assembling shout, with archangel's voice and with trump of God, shall descend from heaven; and the dead in Christ shall rise first;

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For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

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then *we*, the living who remain, shall be caught up together with them in [the] clouds, to meet the Lord in [the] air; and thus we shall be always with [the] Lord.

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Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall always be with the Lord.

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So encourage one another with these words.)

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Therefore comfort one another with these words.

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