Living to Please God 1 TNT Further more we beseche you brethren and exhorte you in the lorde Iesus that ye increace more and more euen as ye have receaved of vs how ye ought to walke and to please god. 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 TNT Ye remember what commaundmentes we gave you in oure lorde Iesu Christ. BSB BSB: For you know the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.
3 TNT For this is the will of god even that ye shuld be holy BSB BSB: For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;
4 TNT and that ye shuld abstayne from fornicacion that every one of you shuld knowe how to kepe his vessell in holynes and honoure BSB BSB: each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,
5 TNT and not in the lust of concupiscence as do the hethen which knowe not god BSB BSB: not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
6 TNT that noman goo to farre and defraude his brother in bargayninge: because the lorde is a venger of all suche thinges as we tolde you before tyme 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 TNT For god hath not called vs vnto vnclennes: but vnto holynes. BSB BSB: For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.
8 TNT He therfore that despiseth despiseth not man but God which hath sent his holy sprete amonge 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 TNT But as touchynge brotherly love ye nede not that I wryte vnto you. For ye are taught of God to love on 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 TNT Ye and that thinge verely ye do vnto all the brethren which are thorow oute all Macedonia. We beseche you brethren that ye encreace 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 TNT and that ye studye to be quyet and to medle with youre awne busynes and to worke with youre awne hondes as we commaunded 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 TNT that ye maye behave youre selves honestly towarde them that are with out and that nothinge be lackynge vnto you. BSB BSB: Then you will behave properly toward outsiders, without being dependent on anyone.
The Return of the Lord 14 TNT For yf we beleve that Iesus dyed and rose agayne: even so them also which slepe by IeIesus will God brynge agayne 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 TNT And this saye we vnto you in the worde of the Lorde that we which live and are remayninge in the comminge of the Lorde shall not come yerre they which slepe. 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 TNT then shall we which live and remayne be caught vp with them also in the cloudes to mete the Lorde in the ayer. And so shall we ever be with the Lorde. 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 TNT Wherfore comforte youre selves one another with these wordes BSB BSB: Therefore encourage one another with these words.
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