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Living to Please God

As for other matters, brothers and sisters, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more.

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

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

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It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;

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

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that each of you should learn to control your own bodya in a way that is holy and honorable,

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

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not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God;

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

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and that in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage of a brother or sister.b The Lord will punish all those who commit such sins, as we told you and warned you before.

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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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For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.

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

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Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject a human being but God, the very God who gives you his Holy Spirit.

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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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Now about your love for one another we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love each other.

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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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And in fact, you do love all of God’s family throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you, brothers and sisters, to do so more and more,

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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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and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you,

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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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so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.

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

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Believers Who Have Died

Brothers and sisters, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you do not grieve like the rest of mankind, who have no hope.

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

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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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According to the Lord’s word, we tell you that we who are still alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will certainly not precede those who have fallen asleep.

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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 the Lord himself will come down from heaven, with a loud command, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet call of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first.

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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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After that, we who are still alive and are left will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.

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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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Therefore encourage one another with these words.

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So encourage one another with these words.)

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