1Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more.[ † ]1 Corinthians 15:58Philippians 1:27Colossians 1:10 2For you know the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.
3For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;[ † ]Romans 12:2Ephesians 5:271 Corinthians 6:15-20Colossians 3:5 4each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,[ † ]Romans 6:19 5not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;[ † ]Colossians 3:5Ephesians 4:17-181 Corinthians 15:34 6and no one should ever violate or exploit his brother in this regard, because the Lord will avenge all such acts, as we have already told you and solemnly warned you.[ † ]2 Thessalonians 1:8 7For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.[ † ]Leviticus 11:44Hebrews 12:141 Peter 1:14-16 8Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.[ † ]Luke 10:161 Corinthians 2:10
9Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.[ † ]Jeremiah 31:33-34John 6:45John 15:12-171 John 2:27Matthew 22:39 10And you are indeed showing this love to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to excel more and more[ † ]1 Thessalonians 3:12 11and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you.[ † ]2 Thessalonians 3:111 Peter 4:15Acts 20:35 12Then you will behave properly toward outsiders, without being dependent on anyone.[ † ]Romans 13:13Colossians 4:51 Peter 2:12
13Brothers, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, so that you will not grieve like the rest, who are without hope.[ † ]Leviticus 19:28Ephesians 2:12 14For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him.[ † ]1 Corinthians 15:131 Corinthians 15:20-23
15By the word of the Lord, we declare to you that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have fallen asleep.[ † ]1 Kings 13:171 Kings 20:352 Corinthians 12:1Galatians 1:121 Corinthians 15:51-521 Thessalonians 5:10 16For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise.[ † ]Matthew 24:30-311 Corinthians 15:521 Corinthians 15:232 Thessalonians 2:1Revelation 14:13Revelation 20:6 17After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord.[ † ]1 Corinthians 15:51-531 Thessalonians 5:10Daniel 7:13Acts 1:9Revelation 11:12John 14:3John 17:24
18Therefore encourage one another with these words.[ † ]1 Thessalonians 5:11