1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 Furthermore, we encourage you, brothers, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us how you ought to walk, and to please God, so you would abound more and more.

NSB⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Furthermore, we encourage you, brothers, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us how you ought to walk, and to please God, so you would abound more and more. ² You know the commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus. ³ This is the will of God, for your sanctification (holiness) (purification), that you should abstain from fornication. ⁴ Every one of you should know how to possess his own vessel in holiness and honor, ⁵ not in the lust of sexual desire like the nations who do not know God. ⁶ Let no man defraud his brother in any matter. Jehovah is the avenger of this. We also have warned you and testified. ⁷ For God has not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness. ⁸ He therefore that rejects this, rejects not man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to us.