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1 Thessalonians 4:1-12

1 Thessalonians 4:1-12 CPDV

Therefore, concerning other things, brothers, we ask and beg you, in the Lord Jesus, that, just as you have received from us the way in which you ought to walk and to please God, so also may you walk, in order that you may abound all the more. For you know what precepts I have given to you through the Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from fornication, that each one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor, not in passions of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God, and that no one should overwhelm or circumvent his brother in business. For the Lord is the vindicator of all these things, just as we have preached and testified to you. For God has not called us to impurity, but to sanctification. And so, whoever despises these teachings, does not despise man, but God, who has even provided his Holy Spirit within us. But concerning the charity of brotherhood, we have no need to write to you. For you yourselves have learned from God that you should love one another. For indeed, you act in this way with all the brothers in all of Macedonia. But we petition you, brothers, so that you may abound all the more, to choose work that allows you to be tranquil, and to carry out your business and to do your work with your own hands, just as we have instructed you, and to walk honestly with those who are outside, and to desire nothing belonging to another.

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