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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Finally then, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us how you must walk and please God--as you are doing--do so even more. |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3For this is God's will, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality, |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4so that each of you knows how to control his own body in sanctification and honor, |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5not with lustful desires, like the Gentiles who don't know God. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6This means one must not transgress against and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger of all these offenses, as we also previously told and warned you. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7For God has not called us to impurity but to sanctification. |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Therefore, the person who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who also gives you His Holy Spirit. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9About brotherly love: You don't need me to write you because you yourselves are taught by God to love one another. |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10In fact, you are doing this toward all the brothers in the entire region of Macedonia. But we encourage you, brothers, to do so even more, |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11to seek to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you, |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12so that you may walk properly in the presence of outsiders and not be dependent on anyone. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, concerning those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who have no hope. |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, in the same way God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep through Jesus. |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15For we say this to you by a revelation from the Lord: We who are still alive at the Lord's coming will certainly have no advantage over those who have fallen asleep. |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the archangel's voice, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will rise first. |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Then we who are still alive 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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