1 Thessalonians 4:1-12
Living to Please God

1 Furthermore 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.

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2 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

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3 For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

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4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

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5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

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6 That 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.

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7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

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8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.

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9 But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

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10 And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;

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11 And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

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12 That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and [that] ye may have lack of nothing.

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