1Thessalonians:4:1-12

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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 . * For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus . * For this is the will of God , even your sanctification , that ye should abstain from fornication : * That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour ; * Not in the lust of concupiscence , even 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 hath not called us unto uncleanness , but unto holiness . * He therefore that despiseth , despiseth not man , but God , who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit . * But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you : for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another . * 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 ; * And that ye study to be quiet , and to do your own business , and to work with your own hands , as we commanded you ; * That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without , and that ye may have lack of nothing .

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