1 Thessalonians 3:12–4:10

¹²But you, may the Lord make to exceed and abound in love toward one another, and toward all, even as we also towards you, ¹³in order to the confirming of your hearts unblamable in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.

Chapter 4

¹For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more. ²For ye know what charges we gave you through the Lord Jesus. ³For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication; ⁴that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour, ⁵(not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God,) ⁶not overstepping the rights of and wronging his brother in the matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all these things, even as we also told you before, and have fully testified. ⁷For God has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification. ⁸He therefore that in this disregards his brother, disregards, not man, but God, who has given also his Holy Spirit to you.

⁹Now concerning brotherly love ye have no need that we should write to you, for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. ¹⁰For also ye do this towards all the brethren in the whole of Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound still more,