1 PBS Peapa, ebaletu, newa pa e-pina nete Oke te: Elo-ne elenaneu elelewe Tata kepule. Lumai bamua ela, heve pepei bamuawo elakoko. 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 PBS Elu janoha nerotete-e Oke batikepa. BSB BSB: For you know the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.
3 PBS Pa kewei Tata hupalake: tu-e-e, keiu nole fefe elojatete, BSB BSB: For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;
4 PBS u-ewowo teume eloko eme memewo pa mepe tumeme pa mepano, BSB BSB: each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,
5 PBS hupala fefeka, anara teba Tata fijake te-ete, BSB BSB: not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
6 PBS pa u-jawe baura teba janofefe keleleka na teteriri. Kei Tata-i kera jalelepai keleanaiara, anara netoko pa pinafe netoko. 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 PBS Tata nekeloko jafefe neteteka, pa ja tu netenene. BSB BSB: For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.
8 PBS Peanya bau jawe memami kei neba memamika, pa kei Tata memami kea Letu Keke tu kekeleheto-e. BSB BSB: Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.
9 PBS Pa anara heve nete jupalala kei e-japuneteteka, kei ewolu heve wa Tatato. 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 PBS Janoira elele jopalala te-ete je-Makedonia tupa. Pa e-pinete, jopalala, u-bamuawo jai ele-e. 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 PBS Pa ehuo tabejai ne-tehuhufate, ko japa nene newo enanene pa nopa jano nerone, anara netoko te-e, 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 PBS ko era le-e anara tebas hupala-e tebape-ho pa te-elekokoka. BSB BSB: Then you will behave properly toward outsiders, without being dependent on anyone.
14 PBS Anara keneni, Okei kewa pa keralefuto, pa keneni kei teba biete Okei Tata moletiti alila Kepa. 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 PBS Kewe netote-e Tata pifekepa: netenenete, tekau te-eko Tata totole, tebabi-i toteririkate. 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 PBS kakapa neba mote, netenete, nekeloete atu Tata nekeke hofuate. Anaia Tata kopa nelupa tenenete. 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 PBS Peanyan ebabai pinaheve ele-e. BSB BSB: Therefore encourage one another with these words.
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