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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 |
[1]Therfor, britheren, fro hennus forward we preien you, and bisechen in the Lord Jhesu, that as ye han resseyued of vs, hou it bihoueth you to go and to plese God, so walke ye, that ye abounde the more. |
| [2]For ye knowe what commaundementes we gaue you by the Lorde Iesus |
[2]For ye witen what comaundementis Y haue youun to you bi the Lord Jhesu. |
| [3]For this is the wyll of God, your holynesse, that ye should abstayne from fornication |
[3]For this is the wille of God, youre holynesse, that ye absteyne you fro fornycacioun. |
| [4]That euery one of you should knowe how to possesse his vessell in holynesse and honour |
[4]That ech of you kunne welde his vessel in holynesse, and onour; |
| [5]Not in the lust of concupiscence, euen as the gentiles, which knowe not God |
[5]not in passioun of lust, as hethene men that knowen not God. |
| [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 |
[6]And that no man ouergo, nethir disseyue his brothir in chaffaring. For the Lord is venger of alle these thingis, as we biforseiden to you, and han witnessid. |
| [7]For God hath not called vs vnto vncleanenesse, but into holynesse |
[7]For God clepide not vs in to vnclennesse, but in to holynesse. |
| [8]He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath geuen to you his holy spirite |
[8]Therfor he that dispisith these thingis, dispisith not man, but God, that also yaf his holi spirit in vs. |
| [9]But as touchyng brotherly loue, ye nede not that I write vnto you: For ye are taught of God to loue one another |
[9]But of the charite of britherhed we hadden no nede to write to you; ye silf han lerud of God, that ye loue togidere; |
| [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 |
[10]for ye don that in to alle britheren in al Macedonye. And, britheren, we preyen you, that ye abounde more; and taken kepe, that ye be quyet; |
| [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 |
[11]and that ye do youre nede, and `ye worche with youre hoondis, as we han comaundid to you; |
| [12]That ye may walke honestly toward them that are without, & that nothyng be lackyng in you |
[12]that ye wandre onestli to hem that ben with outforth, and that of no mannus ye desir ony thing. |
| [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 |
[13]For, britheren, we wolen not, that ye vnknowe of men that dien, that ye be not soreuful, as othere that han not hope. |
| [14]For yf we beleue that Iesus dyed and rose agayne: euen so them also whiche sleepe by Iesus, wyll God bryng with hym |
[14]For if we bileuen, that Jhesu was deed, and roos ayen, so God schal lede with hym hem that ben deed bi Jhesu. |
| [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 |
[15]And we seien this thing to you in the word of the Lord, that we that lyuen, that ben left in the comyng of the Lord, schulen not come bifor hem that ben deed. |
| [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 |
[16]For the Lord hym silf schal come doun fro heuene, in the comaundement, and in the vois of an archaungel, and in the trumpe of God; and the deed men that ben in Crist, schulen rise ayen first. |
| [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 |
[17]Afterward we that lyuen, that ben left, schulen be rauyschid togidere with hem in cloudis, metinge Crist `in to the eir; and so euere more we schulen be with the Lord. |
| [18]Wherfore comfort your selues one another in these wordes |
[18]Therfor be ye coumfortid togidere in these wordis. |