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BSB
Berean Standard Bible
KJV
King James Version
Finally
, brothers
, we
ask
and encourage
you in
the Lord Jesus to
live
in
a
way
that
is
pleasing
to
God
, just
as you
have received from
us .
This
is
how you
already
live
, so you
should
do
so
all
the
more.
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 you
know the
instructions
we gave you by the authority
of
the
Lord Jesus.
For ye
know what
commandments
we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
For it
is God’s
will that you
should be
holy:
You
must
abstain from sexual
immorality;
For this
is the
will of
God,
even
your
sanctification,
that ye
should abstain from fornication:
each
of you must
know how to control
his own
body
in holiness
and honor,
That
every
one
of you should
know how to possess
his vessel
in sanctification
and honour;
not in lustful
passion
like
the Gentiles who
do
not
know God ;
Not in the lust
of
concupiscence,
even
as
the
Gentiles which
know not
God :
and
no one
should
ever
violate
or
exploit
his brother in this
regard,
because the Lord will
avenge
all such acts
, as we have already
told
you and solemnly
warned
you
.
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 to
impurity
, but to
holiness.
For God hath
not called us unto
uncleanness
, but unto
holiness.
Anyone,
then
, who
rejects
this
command
does
not reject
man but God, the
very
One
who gives
you
His Holy Spirit.
He
therefore
that
despiseth
, despiseth
not man ,
but God, who hath
also
given
unto
us
his holy Spirit.
Now
about
brotherly love ,
you
do
not
need anyone
to
write to
you,
because
you yourselves have
been
taught by
God to love one another.
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 you
are
indeed showing
this
love
to
all the brothers
throughout
Macedonia .
But we urge
you, brothers
, to
excel
more and more
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 to
aspire
to live
quietly
, to
attend
to your own matters
, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed
you .
And that
ye
study
to be
quiet
, and
to do
your own business
, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded
you ;
Then
you
will
behave
properly
toward outsiders,
without being
dependent
on
anyone
.
That
ye
may
walk
honestly
toward them
that
are
without ,
and
that
ye
may
have
lack
of
nothing
.
Brothers,
we
do
not want
you to be uninformed
about
those
who
sleep
in
death
, so
that you
will
not grieve
like
the
rest
, who
are
without
hope.
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.
For since
we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we
also believe
that
God
will bring with Jesus
those
who
have
fallen
asleep
in
Him.
For if
we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even
so
them
also which
sleep
in
Jesus
will God
bring with him.
By the word of the Lord, we
declare
to
you
that we who
are alive and remain until
the coming of the Lord will
by
no
means
precede
those
who
have
fallen
asleep.
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.
For the Lord Himself will
descend from heaven with a loud
command
, with the voice of an
archangel, and with the trumpet
of God ,
and the dead in Christ will
be
the
first
to
rise .
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:
After
that,
we who
are alive and remain will
be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air .
And so we will
always
be with the Lord.
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
encourage
one another with these words.
Wherefore
comfort
one another with these words.
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