1 F inally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk, --that ye abound more and more.

As to the rest, then, brethren, we request you, and call upon you in the Lord Jesus, as ye did receive from us how it behoveth you to walk and to please God, that ye may abound the more,

2 F or ye know what charge we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

for ye have known what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus,

3 F or this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;

for this is the will of God -- your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

4 t hat each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

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

5 n ot in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;

not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

6 t hat no man transgress, and wrong his brother in the matter: because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

that no one go beyond and defraud in the matter his brother, because an avenger the Lord of all these, as also we spake before to you and testified,

7 F or God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

for God did not call us on uncleanness, but in sanctification;

8 T herefore he that rejecteth, rejecteth not man, but God, who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you.

he, therefore, who is despising -- doth not despise man, but God, who also did give His Holy Spirit to us.

9 B ut concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another;

And concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught to love one another,

10 f or indeed ye do it toward all the brethren that are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, that ye abound more and more;

for ye do it also to all the brethren who in all Macedonia; and we call upon you, brethren, to abound still more,

11 a nd that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you;

and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,

12 t hat ye may walk becomingly toward them that are without, and may have need of nothing.

that ye may walk becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.

13 B ut we would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that fall asleep; that ye sorrow not, even as the rest, who have no hope.

And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope,

14 F or if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also that are fallen asleep in Jesus will God bring with him.

for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also God those asleep through Jesus he will bring with him,

15 F or this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we that are alive, that are left unto the coming of the Lord, shall in no wise precede them that are fallen asleep.

for this to you we say in the word of the Lord, that we who are living -- who do remain over to the presence of the Lord -- may not precede those asleep,

16 F or 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;

because the Lord himself, in a shout, in the voice of a chief-messenger, and in the trump of God, shall come down from heaven, and the dead in Christ shall rise first,

17 t hen we that are alive, that are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

then we who are living, who are remaining over, together with them shall be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in air, and so always with the Lord we shall be;

18 W herefore comfort one another with these words.

so, then, comfort ye one another in these words.