¹ Therefore, furthermore brethren, we request and are encouraging you° in the Lord Jesus, just-as you° received from us how it is essential for you° to walk and to please God, in-order-that you° might abound even more.

² For$ you° know what commands we gave you° through the Lord Jesus.

³ For$ this is the will of God, your° holiness, for you° to abstain from fornication,

⁴ for each of you° to know how to procure his own vessel in holiness and honor,

⁵ not in the passion of lust, just-as also the Gentiles who do not know God;

⁶ and not to go-beyond-limits and take-advantage of his brother in the matter, because the Lord is an avenger concerning all these things, just-as we also foretold to you° and thoroughly testified.

⁷ For$ God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness.

⁸ Therefore, the one rejecting this is not rejecting man, but God, who also gave his Holy Spirit to you°.

⁹ Now concerning brotherly-love, you° have no need for someone to write to you°; for$ you° yourselves are taught by God, $that$ you° should love$ one another;

¹⁰ for$ you° are also practicing it toward all the brethren, the ones who are in the whole of Macedonia. But brethren, we encourage you° to abound even more,

¹¹ and to make it your° aim to be living quiet lives and to do$ your° own things, and to work with your° own hands (just-as we commanded you°),

¹² in-order-that you° may walk decently toward the ones outside, and may have need of nothing. {1Th 4:13-17 & Mat 24:27, 24:29-31 & Mar 13:24-37 & Luk 21:25-28 & Acts 1:11 & 2Th 1:7-9 & 1Co 15:51-15:58 & Rev 1:7 Second Coming.}

¹³ But brethren, we do not wish you° to be ignorant concerning the ones who have fallen-asleep; in-order-that you° may not also be sorrowful like the rest who have no hope.

¹⁴ For$ if we believe that Jesus died and then rose$ up, so the ones who fell-asleep through Jesus, God will also be bringing$ together-with him.

¹⁵ For$ this we are saying to you° in the word of the Lord, We, the ones living, the ones who are left at the presence of the Lord, should never attain heaven before the ones who fell-asleep.

¹⁶ Because the Lord himself will be descending from heaven, in a commanding yell, in the voice of the archangel and at the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be rising$ up first;

¹⁷ thereafter we, the ones living, the ones who are left, will be seized at the same-time together-with them in the clouds, to the encounter of the Lord in the air, and so we will always be together-with the Lord.

¹⁸ So-then, encourage° one another in these words.