BRETHREN, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you learned
from us how you ought to live and to please God, just as you are
doing, you do so more and more. For you know what instructions we gave
you through the Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God, your
sanctification: that you abstain from unchastity; that each one of you know how
to take a wife for himself in holiness and honor, not in the passion
of lust like the heathen who do not know God; that no man
transgress, and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an
avenger in all these things, as we solemnly forewarned you. For God has
not called us for uncleanness, but in holiness. Therefore whoever
disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to
you. But concerning the love of the brethren you have no need to have
any one write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by God to
love one another; and indeed you do love all the brethren throughout
Macedonia. But we exhort you, brethren, to do so more and more, to aspire to
live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands,
as we charged you; so that you may command the respect of outsiders,
and be dependent on nobody.
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