¹Furthermore then we beseech (to call upon; appeal; beg) you, brethren, and exhort [you] by the Lord - Kurios [he to whom a person belongs] Yeshua [God is Salvation] , that as you2f have received of us how you2f ought to walk and to please God-The Father, [so] you2f would abound more and more.

²For you2f know what commandments we gave you by the Lord - Kurios [he to whom a person belongs] Yeshua [God is Salvation] .

³For this is the will of God-The Father, [even] your sanctification, that you2f should abstain from fornication:

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

⁵Not in the lust of concupiscence (strong lust; passion) , even as the Goyim [Gentiles] which know not God-The Father:

⁶That no [man] go beyond and defraud his brother in [any] matter: because that the Lord - Kurios [is] the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

⁷For God-The Father has not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

⁸He therefore that despises, despises not man, but God-The Father, who has also given unto us his holy Spirit [Ruach] .

⁹But as touching brotherly love you2f need not that I write unto you: for you2f yourselves are taught of God-The Father to love one another.

¹⁰And indeed you2f do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia [extended land] : but we beseech (to call upon; appeal; beg) you, brethren, that you2f increase more and more;

¹¹And that you2f study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you;

¹²That you2f may walk honestly toward them that are without, and [that] you2f may have lack of nothing.

¹³But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that you2f sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

¹⁴For if we believe that Yeshua [God is Salvation] died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Yeshua [God is Salvation] will God-The Father bring with him.

¹⁵For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord - Kurios, that we which are alive [and] remain unto the coming of the Lord - Kurios shall not precede them which are asleep.

¹⁶For the Lord - Kurios himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God-The Father: and the dead in Moshiach [Messiah] shall rise first:

¹⁷Then we which are alive [and] remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord - Kurios in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord - Kurios.

¹⁸For what reason comfort one another with these words.