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| [1]Furthermore we besech you brethren, & exhorte you by the Lorde Iesus, that ye encrease more and more, as ye haue receaued of vs, how ye ought to walke and to please God |
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| [2]For ye knowe what commaundementes we gaue you by the Lorde Iesus |
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| [3]For this is the wyll of God, your holynesse, that ye should abstayne from fornication |
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| [4]That euery one of you should knowe how to possesse his vessell in holynesse and honour |
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| [5]Not in the lust of concupiscence, euen as the gentiles, which knowe not God |
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| [6]That no man oppresse and defraude his brother in [any] matter, because that the Lorde is the auenger of all suche: as we also haue forewarned you, and testified |
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| [7]For God hath not called vs vnto vncleanenesse, but into holynesse |
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| [8]He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath geuen to you his holy spirite |
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| [9]But as touchyng brotherly loue, ye nede not that I write vnto you: For ye are taught of God to loue one another |
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| [10]Yea and that thyng veryly ye do vnto all ye brethren which [are] in al Macedonia: But we beseche you brethren, that ye encrease more and more |
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| [11]And that ye studie to be quiet, and to do your owne [busynesse] and to worke with your owne handes as we commaunded you |
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| [12]That ye may walke honestly toward them that are without, & that nothyng be lackyng in you |
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| [13]But I woulde not haue you to be ignoraunt brethren, concernyng them which sleepe, that ye sorowe not euen as other, which haue no hope |
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| [14]For yf we beleue that Iesus dyed and rose agayne: euen so them also whiche sleepe by Iesus, wyll God bryng with hym |
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| [15]For this say we vnto you in the worde of the Lorde, that we whiche lyue, remayning vnto the comyng of the Lord, shall not preuent them which sleepe |
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| [16]For the Lorde hym selfe shal descende from heauen in a shoute, [and] in the voyce of the Archangell, and in the trumpe of God: And the dead in Christ shall aryse first |
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| [17]Than we which lyue, which remaine, shalbe caught vp together with them in the cloudes, to meete the Lorde in the ayre: And so shall we euer be with the Lorde |
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| [18]Wherfore comfort your selues one another in these wordes |
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