1Thessalonians:4

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* And now , brothers , here is what we ask you to do . We beg you in the name of the Lord Jesus . We taught you how to live and to please God . You are living that way now , and we want you to do so more and more . * You know what we told you through the Lord Jesus Christ . * This is what God wants . He wants you to live clean lives . He wants you to keep away from wrong sex . * Each of you should know how to control yourself . Honour your body to make it holy . * Do not have sex with a person you are not married to . Control your strong feelings . Do not act like the people who do not know God . * Do not do wrong to your Christian brother by taking his wife for yourself . The Lord will surely punish all those who do wrong in these things . We have already told you that and made it very clear . * God did not call us to live unclean lives . He wants you to live clean and holy lives . * So anyone who does not obey is not just disobeying a man , but he is disobeying God . And it is God who has given us his Holy Spirit . * You do not need anyone to write to you about how to love each other . God himself has taught you to be loving towards each other . * And you do love all the Christian brothers who are in the whole country of Macedonia . But we beg you , brothers , love them more and more . * Please try to live a quiet life . Mind your own business . Work with your hands as we told you to do . * Then people who do not belong to the church will respect you . And you will not need help from anyone . here is something I want you to know about those who have died . You should not cry for them like people cry who have no hope . * We believe that Jesus died and rose again . And because of what Jesus did , God will bring back with him those who have died . * We tell you what the Lord said . We who are still alive when the Lord comes , will not go ahead of those who have died . * The Lord himself will come down from heaven . There will be a shout , a great angel will speak , and Gods loud horn or trumpet will be blown . * Then we who are still alive on earth will be caught up together with those who were dead . We will be caught up in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air . And then we will be with the Lord forever ! * Therefore , comfort one another with these words . * missing fehlt /missing

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