1 Thessalonians 4:1-9

1Finally then, brothers and sisters, we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received instruction from us about how you must live and please God (as you are in fact living) that you do so more and more.

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

3For this is God’s will: that you become holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality,

4that each of you know how to possess his own body in holiness and honor,

5not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God.

6In this matter no one should violate the rights of his brother or take advantage of him, because the Lord is the avenger in all these cases, as we also told you earlier and warned you solemnly.

7For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.

8Consequently the one who rejects this is not rejecting human authority but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.

9Now on the topic of brotherly love you have no need for anyone to write you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.