1 Thessalonians 4 For the rest, then, brethren, we are asking you and entreating in the Lord Jesus, that, according as you accepted from us how you must be walking and pleasing God (according as you are walking also), that you may be superabounding yet more,

CLV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ For the rest, then, brethren, we are asking you and entreating in the Lord Jesus, that, according as you accepted from us how you must be walking and pleasing God (according as you are walking also), that you may be superabounding yet more, ² for you are aware what charges we give to you through the Lord Jesus. ³ For this is the will of God: your holiness. You are to be abstaining from all prostitution; ⁴ each of you is to be aware of his own vessel, to be acquiring it in holiness and honor, ⁵ not in lustful passion even as the nations also who are not acquainted with God. ⁶ No one is to be circumventing and overreaching his brother in the matter, because the Lord is the Avenger of all these, according as we said to you before also, and certify, ⁷ for God calls us, not for uncleanness, but in holiness." ⁸ Surely, in consequence, then, he who is repudiating is not repudiating man, but God, Who is also giving His holy spirit to you." ⁹ Now, concerning brotherly fondness, we have no need to be writing to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to be loving one another, ¹⁰ for you are doing it also to all the brethren who are in the whole of Macedonia. Now we are entreating you, brethren, to be superabounding yet more, ¹¹ and that you be ambitious to be quiet, and to be engaged in your own affairs, and to be working with your hands, according as we charge you, ¹² that you may be walking respectably toward those outside and you may have need of nothing. ¹³ Now we do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are reposing, lest you may sorrow according as the rest, also, who have no expectation." ¹⁴ For, if we are believing that Jesus died and rose, thus also, those who are put to repose, will God, through Jesus, lead forth together with Him." ¹⁵ For this we are saying to you by the word of the Lord, that we, the living, who are surviving to the presence of the Lord, should by no means outstrip those who are put to repose, ¹⁶ for the Lord Himself will be descending from heaven with a shout of command, with the voice of the Chief Messenger, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ shall be rising first, ¹⁷ Thereupon we, the living who are surviving, shall at the same time be snatched away together with them in clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. And thus shall we always be together with the Lord." ¹⁸ So that, console one another with these words."