1Thessalonians:4

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* Finally then , brethren , we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more , just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God ; * for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus . * For this is the will of God , your sanctification : that you should abstain from sexual immorality ; * that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor , * not in passion of lust , like the Gentiles who do not know God ; * that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter , because the Lord is the avenger of all such , as we also forewarned you and testified . * For God did not call us to uncleanness , but in holiness . * Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man , but God , who has also given us His Holy Spirit . * But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you , for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another ; * and indeed you do so toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia . But we urge you , brethren , that you increase more and more ; * that you also aspire to lead a quiet life , to mind your own business , and to work with your own hands , as we commanded you , * that you may walk properly toward those who are outside , and that you may lack nothing . * But I do not want you to be ignorant , brethren , concerning those who have fallen asleep , lest you sorrow as others who have no hope . * For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again , even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus . * For this we say to you by the word of the Lord , that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep . * For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout , with the voice of an archangel , and with the trumpet of God . And the dead in Christ will rise first . * Then we who are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air . And thus we shall always be with the Lord . * Therefore comfort one another with these words .

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