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.

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

For ye know what charges 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 will of God, your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;

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

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

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

(not in passionate desire, even as the nations 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.

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 unto uncleanness, but unto sanctification.

For God has not called us to 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.

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

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

For also ye do this towards all the brethren in the whole of Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound still 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 to seek earnestly to be quiet and mind your own affairs, and 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 reputably towards those without, and may have need of no one.

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 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 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 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 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 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 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, 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 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, 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 one another with these words.

So encourage one another with these words.)