1Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.[ † ]1 Corinthians 15:58Philippians 1:27Colossians 1:10 2For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
3For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:[ † ]Romans 12:2Ephesians 5:271 Corinthians 6:15-20Colossians 3:5 4that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;[ † ]Romans 6:19 5not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:[ † ]Colossians 3:5Ephesians 4:17-181 Corinthians 15:34 6that no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.[ † ]2 Thessalonians 1:8 7For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.[ † ]Leviticus 11:44Hebrews 12:141 Peter 1:14-16 8He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.[ † ]Luke 10:161 Corinthians 2:10
9But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.[ † ]Jeremiah 31:33-34John 6:45John 15:12-171 John 2:27Matthew 22:39 10And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;[ † ]1 Thessalonians 3:12 11and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;[ † ]2 Thessalonians 3:111 Peter 4:15Acts 20:35
12that ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.[ † ]Romans 13:13Colossians 4:51 Peter 2:12
13But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.[ † ]Leviticus 19:28Ephesians 2:12 14For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.[ † ]1 Corinthians 15:131 Corinthians 15:20-23 15For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.[ † ]1 Kings 13:171 Kings 20:352 Corinthians 12:1Galatians 1:121 Corinthians 15:51-521 Thessalonians 5:10 16For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:[ † ]Matthew 24:30-311 Corinthians 15:521 Corinthians 15:232 Thessalonians 2:1Revelation 14:13Revelation 20:6 17then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.[ † ]1 Corinthians 15:51-531 Thessalonians 5:10Daniel 7:13Acts 1:9Revelation 11:12John 14:3John 17:24 18Wherefore comfort one another with these words.[ † ]1 Thessalonians 5:11