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1For the rest therefore, brethren, we pray and beseech you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us, how you ought to walk, and to please God, so also you would walk, that you may abound the more.

2For you know what precepts I have given to you by the Lord Jesus.

3For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that you should abstain from fornication;

4That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour:

5Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles that know not God:

6And that no man overreach, nor circumvent his brother in business: because the Lord is the avenger of all these things, as we have told you before, and have testified.

7For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto sanctification.

8Therefore, he that despiseth these things, despiseth not man, but God, who also hath given his holy Spirit in us.

9But as touching the charity of brotherhood, we have no need to write to you: for yourselves have learned of God to love one another.

10For indeed you do it towards all the brethren in all Macedonia. But we entreat you, brethren, that you abound more:

11And that you use your endeavour to be quiet, and that you do your own business, and work with your own hands, as we commanded you: and that you walk honestly towards them that are without; and that you want nothing of any man’s.

12And we will not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are asleep, that you be not sorrowful, even as others who have no hope.

13For if we believe that Jesus died, and rose again; even so them who have slept through Jesus, will God bring with him.

14For this we say unto you in the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them who have slept.

15For the Lord himself shall come down from heaven with commandment, and with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead who are in Christ, shall rise first.

16Then we who are alive, who are left, shall be taken up together with them in the clouds to meet Christ, into the air, and so shall we be always with the Lord.

17Wherefore, comfort ye one another with these words.

1De cetero ergo, fratres, rogamus vos et obsecramus in Domino Jesu, ut quemadmodum accepistis a nobis quomodo oporteat vos ambulare, et placere Deo, sic et ambuletis ut abundetis magis.

2Scitis enim quæ præcepta dederim vobis per Dominum Jesum.

3Hæc est enim voluntas Dei, sanctificatio vestra: ut abstineatis vos a fornicatione,

4ut sciat unusquisque vestrum vas suum possidere in sanctificatione, et honore:

5non in passione desiderii, sicut et gentes, quæ ignorant Deum:

6et ne quis supergrediatur, neque circumveniat in negotio fratrem suum: quoniam vindex est Dominus de his omnibus, sicut prædiximus vobis, et testificati sumus.

7Non enim vocavit nos Deus in immunditiam, sed in sanctificationem.

8Itaque qui hæc spernit, non hominem spernit, sed Deum: qui etiam dedit Spiritum suum Sanctum in nobis.

9De caritate autem fraternitatis non necesse habemus scribere vobis: ipsi enim vos a Deo didicistis ut diligatis invicem.

10Etenim illud facitis in omnes fratres in universa Macedonia. Rogamus autem vos, fratres, ut abundetis magis,

11et opera detis ut quieti sitis, et ut vestrum negotium agatis, et operemini manibus vestris, sicut præcepimus vobis:

12et ut honeste ambuletis ad eos qui foris sunt: et nullius aliquid desideretis.

13Nolumus autem vos ignorare fratres de dormientibus, ut non contristemini sicut et ceteri, qui spem non habent.

14Si enim credimus quod Jesus mortuus est, et resurrexit: ita et Deus eos qui dormierunt per Jesum, adducet cum eo.

15Hoc enim vobis dicimus in verbo Domini, quia nos, qui vivimus, qui residui sumus in adventum Domini, non præveniemus eos qui dormierunt.

16Quoniam ipse Dominus in jussu, et in voce archangeli, et in tuba Dei descendet de cælo: et mortui, qui in Christo sunt, resurgent primi.

17Deinde nos, qui vivimus, qui relinquimur, simul rapiemur cum illis in nubibus obviam Christo in aëra, et sic semper cum Domino erimus.

18Itaque consolamini invicem in verbis istis.

1Therefore, concerning other things, brothers, we ask and beg you, in the Lord Jesus, that, just as you have received from us the way in which you ought to walk and to please God, so also may you walk, in order that you may abound all the more.

2For you know what precepts I have given to you through the Lord Jesus.

3For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from fornication,

4that each one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor,

5not in passions of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God,

6and that no one should overwhelm or circumvent his brother in business. For the Lord is the vindicator of all these things, just as we have preached and testified to you.

7For God has not called us to impurity, but to sanctification.

8And so, whoever despises these teachings, does not despise man, but God, who has even provided his Holy Spirit within us.

9But concerning the charity of brotherhood, we have no need to write to you. For you yourselves have learned from God that you should love one another.

10For indeed, you act in this way with all the brothers in all of Macedonia. But we petition you, brothers, so that you may abound all the more,

11to choose work that allows you to be tranquil, and to carry out your business and to do your work with your own hands, just as we have instructed you,

12and to walk honestly with those who are outside, and to desire nothing belonging to another.

13And we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who are sleeping, so as not to be sorrowful, like these others who do not have hope.

14For if we believe that Jesus has died and risen again, so also will God bring back with Jesus those who sleep in him.

15For we say this to you, in the Word of the Lord: that we who are alive, who remain until the return of the Lord, will not precede those who have fallen asleep.

16For the Lord himself, with a command and with the voice of an Archangel and with a trumpet of God, shall descend from heaven. And the dead, who are in Christ, shall rise up first.

17Next, we who are alive, who are remaining, shall be taken up quickly together with them into the clouds to meet Christ in the air. And in this way, we shall be with the Lord always.

18Therefore, console one another with these words.