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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Finally, then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, just as you are doing, that you do so more and more. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God; |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Now concerning brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another, |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10for that indeed is what you are doing to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to do this more and more, |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11and to aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you, |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12so that you may walk properly before outsiders and be dependent on no one. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15For this we declare to you by a word from the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we will always be with the Lord. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18Therefore encourage one another with these words. |
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