1 As for other matters, brothers and
sisters, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you
are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and
more.
2 For you know what instructions
we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.
3 It is God’s will that you should
be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;
4 that each of you should learn to control your own
body in a way
that is holy and honorable,
5 not in
passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God;
6 and that in this matter no one should wrong or take
advantage of a brother or sister. The Lord
will punish all those who commit such sins, as we told you and warned you
before.
7 For God did not call us to
be impure, but to live a holy life.
8 Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject a human being but
God, the very God who gives you his Holy Spirit.
9 Now about your love for one
another we do not need to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught by
God to love each other.
10 And in
fact, you do love all of God’s family throughout Macedonia. Yet we urge you,
brothers and sisters, to do so more and more,
11 and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet life: You
should mind your own business and work with your hands, just as we told you,
12 so that your daily life may win the
respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.
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