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| [1]And furthermore we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you in the Lord Jesus that ye increase more and more, as ye have received of us, how ye ought to walk, and to please God. |
[1]As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more, |
| [2]For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. |
[2]for ye have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus, |
| [3]For this is the will of God even your sanctification, and that ye should abstain from fornication, |
[3]for this is the will of God -- your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom, |
| [4]That every one of you should know, how to possess his vessel in holiness and honor, |
[4]that each of you know his own vessel to possess in sanctification and honour, |
| [5]And not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: |
[5]not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God, |
| [6]That no man oppress or defraud his brother in any matter: for the Lord is avenger of all such things, as we also have told you before time and testified. |
[6]that no one go beyond and defraud in the matter his brother, because an avenger [is] the Lord of all these, as also we spake before to you and testified, |
| [7]For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. |
[7]for God did not call us on uncleanness, but in sanctification; |
| [8]He therefore that despiseth these things, despiseth not man, but God who hath even given you his Holy Spirit. |
[8]he, therefore, who is despising -- doth not despise man, but God, who also did give His Holy Spirit to us. |
| [9]But as touching brotherly love, ye need not that I write unto you: for ye are taught of God to love one another. |
[9]And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of [my] writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another, |
| [10]Yea, and that thing verily ye do unto all the brethren, which are throughout all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more, |
[10]for ye do it also to all the brethren who [are] in all Macedonia; and we call upon you, brethren, to abound still more, |
| [11]And that ye study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you, |
[11]and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you, |
| [12]That ye may behave yourselves honestly toward them that are without, and that nothing be lacking unto you. |
[12]that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing. |
| [13]Â I would not, brethren, have you ignorant concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not even as other which have no hope. |
[13]And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope, |
| [14]For if we believe that Jesus is dead, and is risen, even so them which sleep in Jesus, will God bring with him. |
[14]for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also God those asleep through Jesus he will bring with him, |
| [15]For this say we unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which live, and are remaining in the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them which sleep. |
[15]for this to you we say in the word of the Lord, that we who are living -- who do remain over to the presence of the Lord -- may not precede those asleep, |
| [16]For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, and with the voice of the Archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first. |
[16]because the Lord himself, in a shout, in the voice of a chief-messenger, and in the trump of God, shall come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first, |
| [17]Then shall we which live and remain, be caught up with them also in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. |
[17]then we who are living, who are remaining over, together with them shall be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in air, and so always with the Lord we shall be; |
| [18]Wherefore, comfort yourselves one another with these words. |
[18]so, then, comfort ye one another in these words. |