Living to Please God 1 WBS Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would 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 WBS For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. BSB BSB: For you know the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.
3 WBS For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from lewdness. BSB BSB: For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;
4 WBS That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor; BSB BSB: each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,
5 WBS Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles who know not God: BSB BSB: not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
6 WBS That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have 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 WBS For God hath not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness. BSB BSB: For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.
8 WBS He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given to us his holy Spirit. BSB BSB: Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.
9 WBS But concerning brotherly love ye need not that I write to you: for ye yourselves are taught by 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 WBS And indeed ye do it towards all the brethren who are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase 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 WBS And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded 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 WBS That ye may walk honestly towards them that are without, and that ye 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 WBS For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also who sleep 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 WBS For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain to the coming of the Lord shall not precede them who are 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 WBS Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them 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 WBS Wherefore, comfort one another with these words. BSB BSB: Therefore encourage one another with these words.
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