003:013 Thus He will build up your characters, so that you will be
faultlessly holy in the presence of our God and Father at
the Coming of our Lord Jesus with all His holy ones.
004:001 Moreover, brethren, as you learnt from our lips the lives
which you ought to live, and do live, so as to please God,
we beg and exhort you in the name of the Lord Jesus to live
them more and more truly.
004:002 For you know the commands which we laid upon you by the authority
of the Lord Jesus.
004:003 For this is God's will--your purity of life, that you
abstain from fornication;
004:004 that each man among you shall know how to procure a wife
who shall be his own in purity and honour;
004:005 that you be not overmastered by lustful cravings, like the Gentiles
who have no knowledge of God;
004:006 and that in this matter there be no encroaching on the
rights of a brother Christian and no overreaching him.
For the Lord is an avenger in all such cases, as we have
already taught you and solemnly warned you.
004:007 God has not called us to an unclean life, but to one of purity.
004:008 Therefore a defiant spirit in such a case provokes not man
but God, who puts His Holy Spirit into your hearts.
004:009 But on the subject of love for the brotherhood it is unnecessary
for me to write to you, for you yourselves have been taught
by God to love one another;
004:010 and indeed you do love all the brethren throughout Macedonia.
And we exhort you to do so more and more,
004:011 and to vie with one another in eagerness for peace,
every one minding his own business and working with his hands,
as we ordered you to do: