Living to Please God 1 RV Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,—that ye abound more and more. BSB BSB: Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more.
2 RV For ye know what charge we gave you through the Lord Jesus. BSB BSB: For you know the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.
3 RV For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; BSB BSB: For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;
4 RV that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honour, BSB BSB: each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,
5 RV not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles which know not God; BSB BSB: not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
6 RV that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in the matter: because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified. BSB BSB: and no one should ever violate or exploit his brother in this regard, because the Lord will avenge all such acts, as we have already told you and solemnly warned you.
7 RV For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification. BSB BSB: For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.
8 RV Therefore he that rejecteth, rejecteth not man, but God, who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you. BSB BSB: Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.
9 RV But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another; BSB BSB: Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.
10 RV for indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, that ye abound more and more; BSB BSB: And you are indeed showing this love to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to excel more and more
11 RV and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you; BSB BSB: and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.
12 RV that ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and may have need of nothing. BSB BSB: Then you will behave properly toward outsiders, without being dependent on anyone.
The Return of the Lord 14 RV For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him. BSB BSB: For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him.
15 RV For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we that are alive, that are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them that are fallen asleep. BSB BSB: By the word of the Lord, we declare to you that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have fallen asleep.
17 RV then we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord. BSB BSB: After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.
18 RV Wherefore comfort one another with these words. BSB BSB: Therefore encourage one another with these words.
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