1Therefore, brethren, from hence-forward we pray you, and beseech in the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us, how it behooveth you to go and to please God, so walk ye, that ye abound more.

2For ye know what commandments I have given to you by the Lord Jesus.

3For this is the will of God, your holiness, that ye abstain you from fornication.

4That each of you know how to wield his vessel in holiness, and honour;

5not in passion of lust, as heathen men that know not God.

6And that no man over-go, neither deceive his brother, in chaffering. For the Lord is avenger of all these things, as we before-said to you, and have witnessed.

7For God called not us into uncleanness, but into holiness.

8Therefore he that despiseth these things, despiseth not man, but God, that also gave his Holy Spirit in us.

9But of the charity of brotherhood, we had no need to write to you; ye yourselves have learned of God, that ye love together;

10for ye do that into all brethren in all Macedonia. And, brethren, we pray you, that ye abound more;

11and take keep, [or and give work, or busyness], that ye be quiet; and that ye do your need, and that ye work with your [own] hands, as we have commanded to you;

12and that ye wander honestly to them that be withoutforth, and that of no man ye desire anything.

13For, brethren, we will not, that ye unknow of men that die, that ye be not sorrowful, as others that have not hope.

14For if we believe, that Jesus was dead, and rose again, so God shall lead with him them that be dead by Jesus.

15And we say this thing to you in the word of the Lord, that we that live, that be left in the coming of the Lord, shall not come before them that be dead.

16For the Lord himself shall come down from heaven, in the command-ment [or in the commanding], and in the voice of an archangel, and in the trump of God; and the dead men that be in Christ, shall rise again first.

17Afterward we that live, that be left, shall be ravished together with them in clouds, meeting Christ in the air; and so evermore we shall be with the Lord.

18Therefore be ye comforted together in these words.