1 Thessalonians 4

¹Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,—that ye abound more and more.

²For ye know what charge we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

³For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;

⁴that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

⁵not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;

⁶that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in the matter: because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

⁷For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

⁸Therefore he that rejecteth, rejecteth not man, but God, who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you.

⁹But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another;

¹⁰for indeed ye do it toward all the brethren that are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, that ye abound more and more;

¹¹and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you;

¹²that ye may walk becomingly toward them that are without, and may have need of nothing.

¹³But we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, who have no hope.