1 Thessalonians 4:1-9

1Finally then, brothers and sisters, we ask you and appeal in the Lord Yeshua—just as you received from us the way you ought to walk and please God (as in fact you are walking)—that you keep progressing more and more.

2For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Yeshua.

3For this is the will of God—your sanctification: to abstain from sexual immorality;

4to know, each of you, how to gain control over his own body in holiness and honor—

5not in the passion of lust like the pagans who do not know God;

6and not to overstep his brother and take advantage of him in this matter— because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, as we told you before and solemnly warned you.

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

8Consequently, the one who rejects this is not rejecting man, but God, who gives His Ruach ha-Kodesh to you.

9Now concerning brotherly love, you have no need for anyone to write you—for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.