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1. Finally, brothers, we urge you and appeal to you in the Lord Jesus; we instructed you how to live in the way that pleases God, and you are so living; but make more progress still.

1. Finally, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God, just as you are doing, you do so more and more.

2. You are well aware of the instructions we gave you on the authority of the Lord Jesus.

2. For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

3. God wills you all to be holy. He wants you to keep away from sexual immorality,

3. For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from unchastity;

4. and each one of you to know how to control his body in a way that is holy and honourable,

4. that each one of you know how to take a wife for himself in holiness and honor,

5. not giving way to selfish lust like the nations who do not acknowledge God.

5. not in the passion of lust like heathen who do not know God;

6. He wants nobody at all ever to sin by taking advantage of a brother in these matters; the Lord always pays back sins of that sort, as we told you before emphatically.

6. that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we solemnly forewarned you.

7. God called us to be holy, not to be immoral;

7. For God has not called us for uncleanness, but in holiness.

8. in other words, anyone who rejects this is rejecting not human authority, but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.

8. Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.

9. As for brotherly love, there is no need to write to you about that, since you have yourselves learnt from God to love one another,

9. But concerning love of the brethren you have no need to have any one write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another;

10. and in fact this is how you treat all the brothers throughout the whole of Macedonia. However, we do urge you, brothers, to go on making even greater progress

10. and indeed you do love all the brethren throughout Macedo'nia. But we exhort you, brethren, to do so more and more,

11. and to make a point of living quietly, attending to your own business and earning your living, just as we told you to,

11. to aspire to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we charged you;

12. so that you may earn the respect of outsiders and not be dependent on anyone.

12. so that you may command the respect of outsiders, and be dependent on nobody.

13. We want you to be quite certain, brothers, about those who have fallen asleep, to make sure that you do not grieve for them, as others do who have no hope.

13. But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as others do who have no hope.

14. We believe that Jesus died and rose again, and that in the same way God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

14. For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so, through Jesus, God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.

15. We can tell you this from the Lord's own teaching, that we who are still alive for the Lord's coming will not have any advantage over those who have fallen asleep.

15. For this we declare to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, shall not precede those who have fallen asleep.

16. At the signal given by the voice of the Archangel and the trumpet of God, the Lord himself will come down from heaven; those who have died in Christ will be the first to rise,

16. For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a cry of command, with the archangel's call, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first;

17. and only after that shall we who remain alive be taken up in the clouds, together with them, to meet the Lord in the air. This is the way we shall be with the Lord for ever.

17. then we who are alive, who are left, shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so we shall always be with the Lord.

18. With such thoughts as these, then, you should encourage one another.

18. Therefore comfort one another with these words.



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