rkjnt 1Thessalonians:4:1-12 SEEK
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Furthermore ,
we urge you ,
brethren ,
and exhort you in the Lord Jesus ,
that as you have learned from us how you ought to walk and to please God ,
as indeed you are doing ,
so you would do more and more .
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For you know what commandments we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus .
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For this is the will of God :
your sanctification ,
that you should abstain from sexual immorality ,
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That every one of you should know how to possess his own vessel in holiness and honour ;
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Not in the lust of passion ,
as the Gentiles who do not know God :
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That no man might transgress and defraud his brother in any matter :
because the Lord is the avenger in all these things ,
as we also have told you and warned you .
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For God has not called us to impurity ,
but to holiness .
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Therefore ,
he who rejects this ,
does not reject man ,
but God ,
who has also given you his Holy Spirit .
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But regarding brotherly love you do not need any one to write to you :
for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another .
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And indeed you do love all the brethren who are in all Macedonia :
but we urge you ,
brethren ,
that you do so more and more ;
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And that you aspire to live quietly ,
and to mind your own business ,
and to work with your own hands ,
as we commanded you ;
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That you may behave properly toward those who are outside ,
and that you may lack nothing .