1Thessalonians:4

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* Furthermore then we beseech you , brothers , and exhort you by the Lord Jesus , that as you have received of us how you ought to walk and to please God , so you would abound more and more . * For you know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus . * For this is the will of God , even your sanctification , that you should abstain from fornication : * That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor ; * Not in the lust of sexual desire , just as the Gentiles which know not God : * That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter : because that the Lord is the avenger of all such , as we also have forewarned you and testified . * For God has not called us unto uncleanness , but unto holiness . * He therefore that despises , despises not man , but God , who has also given unto us his Holy Spirit . * But as touching brotherly love you need not that I write unto you : for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another . * And indeed you do it toward all the brothers which are in all Macedonia : but we beseech you , brothers , that you increase more and more ; * And that you study to be quiet , and to do your own business , and to work with your own hands , as we commanded you ; * That you may walk honestly toward them that are outside , and that you may have lack of nothing . * But I would not have you to be ignorant , brothers , concerning those who are asleep , that you sorrow not , just as others which have no hope . * For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again , even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him . * For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord , that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent those who are asleep . * For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout , with the voice of the archangel , and with the trump of God : and the dead in Christ shall rise first : * Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds , to meet the Lord in the air : and so shall we ever be with the Lord . * Therefore comfort one another with these words .

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