1 Thessalonians 4
A Life Pleasing to
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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.
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For ye know what commandments we gave you
by the Lord Jesus.
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For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from
fornication:
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that every one of you should know how to
possess his vessel in sanctification and honor;
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not in the lust of concupiscence, even as
the Gentiles which know not God:
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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.
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For God hath not called us unto
uncleanness, but unto holiness.
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He therefore that despiseth, despiseth
not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his Holy
Spirit.
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But as touching brotherly love ye need
not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to
love one another.
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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;
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and that ye study to be quiet, and to do
your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded
you;
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that ye may walk honestly toward them
that are without, and that ye may have lack of
nothing.
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The Coming of the
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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.
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For if we believe that Jesus died and
rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring
with him.
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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.
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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:
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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. 1 Cor.
15.51-52
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Wherefore comfort one another with these
words.
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