1 F inally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you 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 you know what instructions 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: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

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 control his own body 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 don’t know God;

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

6 t hat no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this 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 who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to 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 brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by 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 you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you 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 you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed 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 you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

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

13 B ut we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like 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 God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus.

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 tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left to the coming of the Lord, will in no way precede those who have 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 will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will 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 who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever.

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 T herefore comfort one another with these words.

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