1Thessalonians:4
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Furthermore then we beseech you ,
brethren ,
and exhort you by the Lord Jesus ,
that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God ,
so ye would abound more and more .
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For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus .
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For this is the will of God ,
even your sanctification ,
that ye should abstain from fornication :
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That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour ;
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Not in the lust of concupiscence ,
even as the Gentiles which know not God :
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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 .
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For God hath not called us unto uncleanness ,
but unto holiness .
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He therefore that despiseth ,
despiseth not man ,
but God ,
who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit .
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But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you :
for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another .
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And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia :
but we beseech you ,
brethren ,
that ye increase more and more ;
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And that ye study to be quiet ,
and to do your own business ,
and to work with your own hands ,
as we commanded you ;
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That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without ,
and that ye may have lack of nothing .
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But I would not have you to be ignorant ,
brethren ,
concerning them which are asleep ,
that ye sorrow not ,
even as others which have no hope .
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For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again ,
even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him .
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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 them which are asleep .
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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 :
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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 .
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Wherefore comfort one another with these words .