BLB 1TH Chapter 4

4 Finally then, brothers, we implore and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that just as you have received from us in what manner it behooves you to walk and to please God, just as even you walk now, so you should abound more. 2 For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. 3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: You are to abstain from sexual immorality; 4 each of you to know how to win mastery over his own vessel in holiness and honor, 5 not in the passion of lust, as also the Gentiles, not knowing God; 6 not to go beyond and to overreach his brother in the matter, because the Lord is avenging concerning all these things, just as also we told you before and thoroughly warned. 7 For God has not called us to impurity, but into holiness. 8 So then, the one rejecting this does not disregard man but God, the One also giving His Holy Spirit to you. 9 Now concerning brotherly love, you have no need for me to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God in order to love one another. 10 And indeed you are doing this toward all the brothers, the ones in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, to abound more and more, 11 and to strive earnestly to live quietly and to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, just as we commanded you, 12 so that you may walk properly toward those outside, and may have need of no one. 13 But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those having fallen asleep, so that you should not be grieved, just as also the rest, those having no hope. 14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with Him those having fallen asleep. 15 For this we declare to you in the word of the Lord, that we the living, remaining unto the coming of the Lord, shall not precede those having fallen asleep, 16 because the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first. 17 Then we, the living remaining, will be caught away together with them in the clouds for the meeting of the Lord in the air; and so we will be always with the Lord. 18 Therefore encourage one another with these words.

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