1 Thessalonians 4:1-9

1For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in [the] Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please 1God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.

2For ye know what charges we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

3For this is [the] will of 2God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;

4that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour,

5(not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not 3God,)

6not overstepping the rights of and wronging his brother in the matter, because the Lord [is] the avenger of all these things, even as we also told you before, and have fully testified.

7For 4God has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.

8He therefore that [in this] disregards [his brother], disregards, not man, but 5God, who has given also his Holy Spirit to you.

9Now concerning brotherly love ye have no need that we should write to you, for ye yourselves are taught of 6God to love one another.