1 F urthermore, brethren, we beg and admonish you in the Lord Jesus, that you learned from us about how you ought to walk so as to please and gratify God, as indeed you are doing, that you do so even more and more abundantly.

For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.

2 F or you know what charges and precepts we gave you '> on the authority and by the inspiration of] the Lord Jesus.

For ye know what charges we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

3 F or this is the will of God, that you should be consecrated (separated and set apart for pure and holy living): that you should abstain and shrink from all sexual vice,

For this is will of God, your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;

4 T hat each one of you should know how to possess (control, manage) his own body in consecration (purity, separated from things profane) and honor,

that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour,

5 N ot in the passion of lust like the heathen, who are ignorant of the true God and have no knowledge of His will,

(not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God,)

6 T hat no man transgress and overreach his brother and defraud him in this matter or defraud his brother in business. For the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we have already warned you solemnly and told you plainly.

not overstepping the rights of and wronging his brother in the matter, because the Lord the avenger of all these things, even as we also told you before, and have fully testified.

7 F or God has not called us to impurity but to consecration.

For God has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.

8 T herefore whoever disregards (sets aside and rejects this) disregards not man but God, Whose Spirit He gives to you is holy (chaste, pure).

He therefore that disregards, disregards, not man, but God, who has given also his Holy Spirit to you.

9 B ut concerning brotherly love, you have no need to have anyone write you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.

Now concerning brotherly love ye have no need that we should write to you, for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

10 A nd indeed you already are to all the brethren throughout Macedonia. But we beseech and earnestly exhort you, brethren, that you excel more and more,

For also ye do this towards all the brethren in the whole of Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound still more,

11 T o make it your ambition and definitely endeavor to live quietly and peacefully, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we charged you,

and to seek earnestly to be quiet and mind your own affairs, and work with your hands, even as we charged you,

12 S o that you may bear yourselves becomingly and be correct and honorable and command the respect of the outside world, being dependent on nobody and having need of nothing.

that ye may walk reputably towards those without, and may have need of no one.

13 N ow also we would not have you ignorant, brethren, about those who fall asleep '> in death], that you may not grieve as the rest do who have no hope.

But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are fallen asleep, to the end that ye be not grieved even as also the rest who have no hope.

14 F or since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will also bring with Him through Jesus those who have fallen asleep '> in death].

For if we believe that Jesus has died and has risen again, so also God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.

15 F or this we declare to you by the Lord’s word, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord shall in no way precede or have any advantage at all over those who have previously fallen asleep '> in death].

(For this we say to you in word of Lord, that we, the living, who remain to the coming of the Lord, are in no way to anticipate those who have fallen asleep;

16 F or the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud cry of summons, with the shout of an archangel, and with the blast of the trumpet of God. And those who have departed this life in Christ will rise first.

for the Lord himself, with an assembling shout, with archangel's voice and with trump of God, shall descend from heaven; and the dead in Christ shall rise first;

17 T hen we, the living ones who remain, shall simultaneously be caught up along with in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so always (through the eternity of the eternities) we shall be with the Lord!

then we, the living who remain, shall be caught up together with them in clouds, to meet the Lord in air; and thus we shall be always with Lord.

18 T herefore comfort and encourage one another with these words.

So encourage one another with these words.)