1 Thessalonians 4:1-9

11Finally then, 2brothers and sisters, we request and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received instruction from us as to how you ought to 34walk and 5please God (just as you actually do 6walk), that you 7excel even more. 2For you know what instructions we gave you 8by the authority of the Lord Jesus. 3For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you 9abstain from sexual immorality; 4that 10each of you know how to 11possess his own 1213vessel in sanctification and 14honor, 5not in 1516lustful passion, like the Gentiles who 17do not know God; 6and that no one violate the rights and 18take advantage of his brother or sister 19in the matter, because 20the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also 21told you previously and solemnly warned you. 7For 22God has not called us for 2324impurity, but in sanctification. 8Therefore, the one who rejects this is not rejecting man, but the God who 25gives His Holy Spirit to you.

9Now as to the 26love of the brothers and sisters, you 27have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are 28taught by God to love one another;