Final Exhortations on Church Life and Closing Benediction
1 Thessalonians 5:12-28
12We ask you, brothers, to know those who labor among you and who set themselves before you in the Lord and who admonish you.13And to regard them superabundantly in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.14We plead with you, brothers: admonish the disorderly, encourage the fainthearted, hold fast to the weak, and be patient toward all.15See that no one pays back evil for evil to anyone, but always pursue what is good toward one another and toward all.16Always rejoice.17Pray without ceasing.18Give thanks in everything, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.19Do not extinguish the spirit.20Do not reject prophecy.21Test all things; hold fast to what is good.22Abstain from every form of evil.23May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.24Faithful is the one who calls you, who will also do it.25Brothers, pray for us.26Greet all the brothers with a holy kiss.27We charge you by the Lord that the letter be read to all the brothers.28The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.