e Lord Jesus. (3)For this is the
will of God, your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;
(4)that each one of you know how to possess[4:4] his vessel in
sanctification and honor; (5)not in lustful passion, as also the
Gentiles who know not God. (6)That no one go beyond and defraud his
brother in any matter[4:6]; because the Lord is the avenger for all
these things, as we also told you before, and testified. (7)For God
did not call us to uncleanness, but in sanctification. (8)Therefore he
that rejects, rejects not man, but God, who also gave to you his Holy
Spirit.

(9)But concerning brotherly love ye need not that I write to you; for
ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. (10)For indeed ye
do it, toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we
beseech you, brethren, to abound yet more; (11)and to study to be
quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands,
as we commanded you; (12)that ye may walk becomingly toward those
without, and may have need of nothing.

(13)But we desire that you should not be ignorant, brethren,
concerning those who are sleeping, that ye sorrow not, as others who
have no hope. (14)For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so
also those who fell asleep through Jesus will God bring with him.

(15)For this we say to you, in the word of the Lord, that we the
living, who remain unto the coming of the Lord, shall not precede
those who fell asleep. (16)Because the Lord himself will descend from
heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the
trump of God; and the dead in Christ will first rise. (17)Then we the
living, who remain, will be caught up together with them in clouds, to
meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

(18)Wherefore, encourage one another with these words.

V.

BUT of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I
write to you. (2)For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the
Lord so comes as a thief in the night. (3)For when they shall say,
Peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them, as travail
upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

(4)But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake
you as a thief. (5)For all ye are sons of light, and sons of day; we
are not of night, nor of darkness. (6)So then let us not sleep, as
others; but let us watch and be sober. (7)For they that sleep, sleep
in the night; and