Instructions for Holy Living: Purity, Love, and Work
1 Thessalonians 4:1-12
1Finally then, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus that, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God—just as you also walk—so that you may abound more.2For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.3For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality.4That each one of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor.5Not in the passion of lust, just as also the Gentiles who do not know God.6That no one transgress or exploit his brother in the matter, because the Lord is the avenger concerning all these things, just as we also foretold you and solemnly testified.7For God did not call us to impurity but in sanctification.8Therefore the one who rejects rejects not a human being but God, who also gives his Holy Spirit to you.9Now concerning brotherly love you have no need that anyone write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.10For indeed you are doing this toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia; but we urge you, brothers, to abound more.11And to aspire to live quietly, to mind your own affairs, and to work with your hands, as we instructed you.12So that you may walk properly toward those outside and have need of nothing.