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Chapter 4 |
| 1 | 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. |
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2 | For ye know what commandments we gave you by the
Lord Jesus. |
| 3
| For this is the will of God, even your sanctification,
that ye should abstain from fornication: |
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4 | That every one of you should
know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; |
| 5 | Not in
the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: |
| 6 |
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. |
| 7
| For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto
holiness. |
| 8
| He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God,
who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit. |
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9 | 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; |
| 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. |
