1 ¶ It is in order then, brethren, that we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that in the manner ye were taught of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would continue to grow.

Finally 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.

2 F or ye already know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

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

3 F or the will of God is your sanctification, that ye should separate yourselves from fornication,

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

4 t hat every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honesty,

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

5 n ot with affection of lust, as the Gentiles who do not know God,

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

6 t hat no one oppress and defraud his brother in any matter because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

that 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.

7 F or God has not called us unto uncleanness, but unto sanctification.

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

8 H e therefore that despises us, does not despise man, but God, who has also given unto us his Holy Spirit.

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

9 ¶ But as touching love among the brethren, ye need not that I write unto you, for ye yourselves have learned of God that ye are to show charity to one another.

But 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;

10 A nd indeed ye do it toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia, but we beseech you, brethren, that ye continue to grow

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

11 a nd that ye procure to be quiet and to do your business and to work with your hands, as we commanded you,

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

12 t hat ye may walk honestly toward those that are without, and that ye may desire nothing from any one.

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

13 ¶ But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as the others who have no hope.

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

14 F or if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so those who sleep in Jesus will God also bring with him.

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

15 F or this, we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not precede those who are asleep.

For 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.

16 F or the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God; and the dead in Christ shall rise first;

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;

17 t hen we who 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.

then 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.

18 T herefore comfort one another with these words.

Wherefore comfort one another with these words.