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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1Finally, dear brothers and sisters, we urge you in the name of the Lord Jesus to live in a way that pleases God, as we have taught you. You live this way already, and we encourage you to do so even more. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2For you remember what we taught you by the authority of the Lord Jesus. |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3God’s will is for you to be holy, so stay away from all sexual sin. |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor— |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6Never harm or cheat a fellow believer in this matter by violating his wife, for the Lord avenges all such sins, as we have solemnly warned you before. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7God has called us to live holy lives, not impure lives. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8Therefore, anyone who refuses to live by these rules is not disobeying human teaching but is rejecting God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9But we don’t need to write to you about the importance of loving each other, for God himself has taught you to love one another. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Indeed, you already show your love for all the believers throughout Macedonia. Even so, dear brothers and sisters, we urge you to love them even more. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed you before. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12Then people who are not believers will respect the way you live, and you will not need to depend on others. The Hope of the Resurrection |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13And now, dear brothers and sisters, we want you to know what will happen to the believers who have died so you will not grieve like people who have no hope. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14For since we believe that Jesus died and was raised to life again, we also believe that when Jesus returns, God will bring back with him the believers who have died. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15We tell you this directly from the Lord: We who are still living when the Lord returns will not meet him ahead of those who have died. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. First, the believers who have died will rise from their graves. |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Then, together with them, we who are still alive and remain on the earth will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Then we will be with the Lord forever. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18So encourage each other with these words. |
| [an error occurred while processing this directive] | Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Carol Stream, Illinois 60188. All rights reserved. |
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