1Finally then, brothers, we ask and exhort you in the Lord Yeshua, that, as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, even as you do walk,—that you abound more and more. 2For you know what charge we gave you through the Lord Yeshua. 3For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you abstain from fornication; 4that each one of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, 5not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who do not know God; 6that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in the matter: because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we also forewarned you and testified. 7For God did not call us for uncleanness, but in sanctification. 8Therefore he who rejects this, rejects not man, but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you. 9But concerning love of the brothers you have no need that anyone write to you: for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another; 10for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more; 11and that you aspire to live quietly, and to mind your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you; 12that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing. 13But we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who fall asleep; that you may not grieve, even as the rest, who have no hope. 14For if we believe that Yeshua died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those also who have fallen asleep in Yeshua. 15For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, shall by no means precede those who have fallen asleep. 16For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven, with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet of God: and the dead in Messiah shall rise first; 17then we who are alive, who are left, shall together with them be caught up in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so we shall always be with the Lord. 18Therefore comfort one another with these words.