1 Thessalonians 4:1-7 TO conclude, brethren, we beg of you and urge you in the Lord Jesus that, as you learned from us how you ought to live to please God, and are living, you will excel still more.

Riverside⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ TO conclude, brethren, we beg of you and urge you in the Lord Jesus that, as you learned from us how you ought to live to please God, and are living, you will excel still more. ² For you know what directions we have given you through the Lord Jesus. ³ For this is the will of God: to have you become holy and have you shun unchastity; ⁴ to have each of you know how to take a wife for himself in holiness and honor, ⁵ not in the passion of lust, as the Gentiles do who know not God; ⁶ to have no one trespass or take advantage of his brother in this matter; for the Lord is the punisher of all such, as we have already told you and solemnly warned you. ⁷ God has not called us to live in impurity, but in holiness.