Living to Please God

1Therefore as to the rest, brethren we ask you, and beseech in the Lord Jesus, as ye received from us how ye must walk and please God, that ye may more abound. 2For ye know what orders we gave you by the Lord Jesus. 3For this is the will of God, your consecration, that ye should keep away from fornication: 4For each of you to know how to possess his vessel in consecration and honour; 5Not in the passion of eager desire, as also the nations not knowing God: 6Not to pass over and have the advantage over his brother in business: because the Lord just for all these, as we told you before and testified. 7But God has not called you to uncleanness, but in consecration. 8For surely therefore he despising, despises not man, but God, he also giving his holy Spirit for us.

9And for brotherly love ye have no need to write to you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. 10For also ye do the same to all the brethren, them in the whole of Macedonia: and we beseech you, brethren, to more abound; 11And that ye be ambitions to remain quiet, and attend to your own things, and work with your own hands, as we enjoined you; 12That ye should walk becomingly to them without, and have need of nothing.

The Return of the Lord

13And I wish you not to be ignorant, brethren, of them having been asleep, that ye should not grieve, as also the rest, they hating no hope. 14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose up, so also God by Jesus Christ will bring with him them having slept. 15For this we say to you in the word of the Lord, that we the living being left at the arrival of the Lord shall not get beforehand with them having slept. 16For the Lord himself in the word of command, in the voice of the archangel, shall descend from heaven: and the dead in Christ shall be raised first: 17Then we the living being left shall be snatched up together with them in the clouds, to the meeting of the Lord in the air: and so we shall always be with the Lord. 18Therefore comfort ye one another with these words.