4Now then, brothers, you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God, as in fact you are doing. We ask and encourage you in the Lord to do so even more.G3063G3767G2065G5209G80G2532G3870G1722G2962G2424G2531G3880G3844G2257G4459G5209G1163G4043G2532G700G2316G2443G4052G31232You know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.G1063G1492G5101G3852G1325G5213G1223G2962G24243For it is God's will that you be sanctified: You must abstain from sexual immorality.G1063G5124G2076G2307G2316G5216G38G5209G567G575G42024Each of you must know how to control his own body in a holy and honorable manner,G1538G5216G1492G2932G1438G4632G1722G38G2532G50925not with passion and lust like the gentiles who do not know God.G3361G1722G3806G1939G2532G2509G1484G3588G1492G3361G23166Furthermore, you must never take advantage of or exploit a brother in this regard, because the Lord avenges all these things, just as we already told you and warned you.G3361G5233G2532G4122G846G80G1722G4229G1360G2962G1558G4012G3956G5130G2531G4277G2532G4277G5213G2532G12637For God did not call us to be impure, but to be holy.G1063G2316G2564G3756G2564G2248G1909G167G235G1722G388Therefore, whoever rejects this instruction is not rejecting human authority but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.G5105G114G114G3756G444G235G2316G1325G2532G1325G1519G2248G846G40G41519Now you do not need anyone to write to you about brotherly love, since you have been taught by God to love each other.G1161G4012G5360G2192G5532G3756G1125G5213G1063G5210G846G2075G2312G1519G25G24010In fact, you are showing love to all the brothers throughout Macedonia, but we urge you, brothers, to keep on doing this even more.G2532G1063G4160G846G1519G3956G80G3588G1722G3650G3109G1161G3870G5209G80G4052G312311Also, make it your goal to live quietly, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you,G2532G5389G2270G2532G4238G2398G2532G2038G5216G2398G5495G2531G3853G521312so that you may win the respect of outsiders, and have need of nothing.G2443G4043G2156G4314G1854G2532G2192G5532G3367
Comfort about Christians who Have Died
13But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who have died, so that you may not grieve like other people who have no hope.G1161G2309G3756G2309G5209G50G80G4012G2837G3363G3076G3363G2532G2531G3062G3588G2192G3361G168014For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so through Jesus God will bring those who have died with him.G1063G1487G4100G3754G2424G599G2532G450G3779G2532G2837G1223G2424G71G2316G71G4862G84615For we declare to you what the Lord has told us to say: We who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have died.G1063G5124G3004G5213G1722G3056G2962G3754G2249G3588G2198G4035G1519G3952G2962G5348G3364G5348G3588G283716With a shout of command, with the archangel's call, and with the sound of God's trumpet, the Lord himself will come down from heaven, and the dead who belong to the Messiah will rise first.G3754G2962G846G2597G575G3772G1722G2752G1722G5456G743G2532G1722G4536G2316G2532G3498G1722G5547G450G441217Then we who are alive and remain will be caught up in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever.G1899G2249G3588G2198G4035G726G260G4862G846G1722G3507G1519G529G2962G1519G109G2532G3779G2071G3842G2071G4862G296218So then, encourage one another with these words.G5620G3870G240G1722G5125G3056
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