1 Finally therefore, brothers, we ask you, and summon in Lord Jesus, that just as ye received from us how ye ought to walk and to please God, that ye may abound more.

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

3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification, for you to abstain from fornication,

4 for each of you to know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and reverence,

5 not in passion of lust, as also the Gentiles who have not known God,

6 not to transgress and to cheat his brother in the affair, because the Lord is vengeful about all these things, as also we forewarned you and solemnly testified.

7 For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.

8 Therefore he who disregards, disregards not man, but God, who also gave his Holy Spirit to you.

9 But about brotherly love ye have no need to write to you, for ye yourselves are taught by God in order to love each other.

10 For ye are also doing it toward all the brothers in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, to abound more,

11 and to aspire to live quietly, and to do your own things, and to work with your own hands, just as we commanded you,

12 so that ye may walk properly toward those outside, and may have nothing lacking.

13 But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, about those who are asleep, so that ye may not grieve, as also the others who have no hope.

14 For if we believe that Jesus died and arose, so also those who became asleep through Jesus, God will bring with him.

15 For this we say to you in the word of Lord, that we who are alive, who remain for the coming of the Lord, will no, not precede those who became asleep.

16 Because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with a voice of the arch-agent, and with a trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first,

17 then we who are alive, who remain, will be caught up simultaneously with them in clouds to the Lord's gathering in the air. And so we will always be with Lord.

18 Therefore encourage each other with these words.

1 Further more we beseche you brethren and exhorte you in the lorde Iesus that ye increace more and more euen as ye have receaved of vs how ye ought to walke and to please god.

2 Ye remember what commaundmetes we gave you in oure lorde Iesu Christ.

3 For this is the will of god even that ye shuld be holy and that ye shuld abstayne from fornicacion

4 that every one of you shuld knowe how to kepe his vessell in holynes and honoure

5 and not in the lust of concupiscence as do the hethen which knowe not god

6 that no man goo to farre and defraude his brother in bargayninge: because the lorde is a venger of all suche thinges as we tolde you before tyme and testified.

7 For god hath not called vs vnto vnclennes: but vnto holynes.

8 He therfore that despiseth despiseth not man but God which hath sent his holy sprete amonge you.

9 But as touchynge brotherly love ye nede not that I wryte vnto you. For ye are taught of God to love on another.

10 Ye and that thinge verely ye do vnto all the brethre which are thorow oute all Macedonia. We beseche you brethren that ye encreace more and more

11 and that ye studye to be quyet and to medle with youre awne busynes and to worke with youre awne hondes as we commaunded you:

12 that ye maye behave youre selves honestly towarde them that are with out and that nothinge be lackynge vnto you.

13 I wolde not brethren have you ignoraut concerninge them which are fallen aslepe that ye sorowe not as other do which have no hope.

14 For yf we beleve that Iesus dyed and rose agayne: even so them also which slepe by IeIesus will God brynge agayne with him.

15 And this saye we vnto you in the worde of the Lorde that we which live and are remayninge in the comminge of the Lorde shall not come yerre they which slepe.

16 For the Lorde him selfe shall descende fro heve with a showte and the voyce of the archangell and trompe of God. And the deed in Christe shall aryse fyrst:

17 then shall we which live and remayne be caught vp with them also in the cloudes to mete the Lorde in ye ayer. And so shall we ever be with the Lorde.

18 Wherfore coforte youre selves one another with these wordes