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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
[2]For ye knowe what commaundementes we gaue you by the Lorde Iesus
[3]For this is the wyll of God, your holynesse, that ye should abstayne from fornication
[4]That euery one of you should knowe how to possesse his vessell in holynesse and honour
[5]Not in the lust of concupiscence, euen as the gentiles, which knowe 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
[7]For God hath not called vs vnto vncleanenesse, but into holynesse
[8]He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath geuen to you his holy spirite
[9]But as touchyng brotherly loue, ye nede not that I write vnto you: For ye are taught of God to loue one another
[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
[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
[12]That ye may walke honestly toward them that are without, & that nothyng be lackyng in you
[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
[14]For yf we beleue that Iesus dyed and rose agayne: euen so them also whiche sleepe by Iesus, wyll God bryng with hym
[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
[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
[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
[18]Wherfore comfort your selues one another in these wordes
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