 4:1  Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort
[you] by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye
ought to walk and to please God, [so] ye would abound more and
more.
 4:2  For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord
Jesus.
 4:3  For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification,
that ye should abstain from fornication:
 4:4  That every one of you should know how to possess his
vessel in sanctification and honour;
 4:5  Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles
which know not God:
 4:6  That no [man] go beyond and defraud his brother in [any]
matter: because that the Lord [is] the avenger of all such, as
we also have forewarned you and testified.
 4:7  For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto
holiness.
 4:8  He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God,
who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
 4:9  But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write
unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one
another.
 4:10  And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in
all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase
more and more;
 4:11  And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own
business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;
 4:12  That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without,
and [that] ye may have lack of nothing.
 4:13  But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren,
concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as
others which have no hope.
 4:14  For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even
so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
 4:15  For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that
we which are alive [and] remain unto the coming of the Lord
shall not prevent them which are asleep.
 4:16  For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a
shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of
God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
 4:17  Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up
together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air:
and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
 4:18  Wherefore comfort one another with these words.
