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chapter 4
1
For
the rest therefore, brethren, we pray and beseech you in the Lord Jesus, that
as you have received from us, how you ought to walk, and to please God, so also
you would walk, that you may abound the more.
2 For you know what precepts I have given to you by the
Lord Jesus.
3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification;
that you should abstain from fornication;
4 That every one of you should know how to possess his
vessel in sanctification and honour:
5 Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles that
know not God:
6 And that no man overreach, nor circumvent his brother
in business: because the Lord is the avenger of all these things, as we have
told you before, and have testified.
7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto
sanctification.
8 Therefore, he that despiseth these things, despiseth
not man, but God, who also hath given his holy Spirit in us.
9 But as touching the charity of brotherhood, we have
no need to write to you: for yourselves have learned of God to love one another.
10 For indeed you do it towards all the brethren in all
Macedonia. But we entreat you, brethren, that you abound more:
11 And that you use your endeavour to be quiet, and
that you do your own business, and work with your own hands, as we commanded
you: and that you walk honestly towards them that are without; and that you
want nothing of any man's.
12 And we will not have you ignorant, brethren,
concerning them that are asleep, that you be not sorrowful, even as others who
have no hope.
13 For if we believe that Jesus died, and rose again;
even so them who have slept through Jesus, will God bring with him.
14 For this we say unto you in the word of the Lord,
that we who are alive, who remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not
prevent them who have slept.
15 For the Lord himself shall come down from heaven
with commandment, and with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of
God: and the dead who are in Christ, shall rise first.
16 Then we who are alive, who are left, shall be taken
up together with them in the clouds to meet Christ, into the air, and so shall
we be always with the Lord.
17 Wherefore, comfort ye one another with these words.
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