Living to please God
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📚Finally then we urge you, brethren, and encourage you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have learned from us how you ought to behave and please God✭, so you would excel in this more and more. 2 📚For you know what instructions we gave you by the Lord Jesus✭.Holy living
3 📚For this is the will of God, your sanctification✭, that you should abstain from sexual immorality✭, 4 📚that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel✭ in holiness and honour✭, 5 📚not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God✭, 6 📚✭that no man transgress and take advantage of his brother in this matter; because the Lord is the avenger✭ of all such, as we also warned you before and solemnly affirmed. 7 📚For God has not called us to uncleanness✭, but to holiness. 8 📚So he who rejects this teaching is rejecting not man but God✭, who has given to us his Holy Spirit✭.
Brotherly love
9 📚✭But concerning brotherly love you have no need of my writing to you, for you yourselves are taught by God✭ to love one another. 10 📚And indeed you do so toward all the brethren who are in all of Macedonia✭. But we urge you, brethren, to excel in this more and more✭,
Living in a way that attracts others
11 📚and to aim✭ to live a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands✭, as we instructed you, 12 📚so that you may behave honorably toward outsiders, and that you will lack nothing✭.
The second coming of Christ, the Rapture
13 📚✭But I would not have you ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep✭, so that you do not grieve✭ like others who have no hope✭.
14 📚For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again✭, just so✭ God will bring with him those who sleep in Jesus✭. 15 📚For this we tell you by the word of the Lord✭: that we who are alive✭ and remain until the coming of the Lord will not precede✭ those who have fallen asleep. 16 📚For the Lord himself 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.