1 A s 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,

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

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

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

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

4 t hat each of you know his own vessel to possess in sanctification and honour,

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

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

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

6 t hat 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,

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 did not call us on uncleanness, but in sanctification;

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

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

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

9 A nd concerning the brotherly love, ye have no need of writing to you, for ye yourselves are God-taught 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 f or ye do it also to all the brethren who in all Macedonia; and we call upon you, brethren, to abound still 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 a nd to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command 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 becomingly unto those without, and may have lack of nothing.

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

13 A nd 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,

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, so also God those asleep through Jesus he will 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 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,

(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 b ecause 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,

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 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;

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 s o, then, comfort ye one another in these words.

So encourage one another with these words.)