“1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort [you] by the
Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to
please God, [so] ye would abound more and more. 2 For ye know what
commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. 3 For this is the will of
God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from
fornication: 4 That every one of you should know how to possess his
vessel in sanctification and honour; 5 Not in the lust of concupiscence,
even as the Gentiles which know not God: 6 That no [man] go beyond and
defraud his brother in [any] matter: because that the Lord [is] the
avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. 7 For
God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. 8 He
therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also
given unto us his holy Spirit.”
“9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you:
for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. 10 And indeed
ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we
beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more; 11 And that ye
study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your
own hands, as we commanded you; 12 That ye may walk honestly toward them
that are without, and [that] ye may have lack of nothing.”
“13 But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them
which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
14 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also
which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. 15 For this we say unto
you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive [and] remain unto
the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. 16 For
the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice
of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ
shall rise first: 17 Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be
caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air:
and so shall we ever be with the Lord. 18 Wherefore comfort one another
with these words.” (1 Thessalonians 4:1-18 AV)
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