1 Thessalonians 4

¹For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in [the] Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.

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

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

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

⁵(not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God,)

⁶not overstepping the rights of and wronging his brother in the matter, because the Lord [is] the avenger of all these things, even as we also told you before, and have fully testified.

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

⁸He therefore that [in this] disregards [his brother], disregards, not man, but God, who has given also his Holy Spirit to you.

⁹Now concerning brotherly love ye have no need that we should write to you, for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

¹⁰For also ye do this towards all the brethren in the whole of Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound still more,

¹¹and to seek earnestly to be quiet and mind your own affairs, and work with your [own] hands, even as we charged you,

¹²that ye may walk reputably towards those without, and may have need of no one.