Paul's LettersNew Testament
Chapter 4· Book XIII of 27
1Verse 1. Open verse actions.Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more. 2Verse 2. Open verse actions.For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. 3Verse 3. Open verse actions.For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, 4Verse 4. Open verse actions.that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honor, 5Verse 5. Open verse actions.not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God; 6Verse 6. Open verse actions.that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified. 7Verse 7. Open verse actions.For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification. 8Verse 8. Open verse actions.Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you. 9Verse 9. Open verse actions.But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another, 10Verse 10. Open verse actions.for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more; 11Verse 11. Open verse actions.and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you; 12Verse 12. Open verse actions.that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing. 13Verse 13. Open verse actions.But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope. 14Verse 14. Open verse actions.For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. 15Verse 15. Open verse actions.For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep. 16Verse 16. Open verse actions.For the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, 17Verse 17. Open verse actions.then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever. 18Verse 18. Open verse actions.Therefore comfort one another with these words.