1Furthermore, we encourage you, brothers, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us how you ought to walk, and to please God, so you would abound more and more. 2You know the commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus. 3This is the will of God, for your sanctification holinesspurification, that you should abstain from fornication. 4Every one of you should know how to possess his own vessel in holiness and honor, 5not in the lust of sexual desire like the nations who do not know God. 6Let no man defraud his brother in any matter. Jehovah is the avenger of this. We also have warned you and testified. 7For God has not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness. 8He therefore that rejects this, rejects not man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to us. 9I do not need to write you about brotherly love. For God taught you to love one another. 10Indeed, you do it toward all the brothers in all Macedonia: but we encourage you to increase more and more. 11Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and mind your own business, and work with your hands, as we command you. 12That way you may walk honestly in the eyes of those on the outside and lack nothing. 13I do not want you to be ignorant brothers, concerning those who are asleep in death. You do not need to sorrow like others who have no hope. 14If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, God will bring with him those who sleep in Jesus. 15We tell you this by God’s Word, that we who are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not precede those who are asleep. 16For the Lord will descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead in Christ will rise first. 17We that are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and so will we ever be with the Lord. 18Comfort one another with these words.