3  For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication; 4  that 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,) 6  not 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. 7  For God has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification. 8  He therefore that in this disregards his brother, disregards, not man, but God, who has given also his Holy Spirit to you.

9  Now concerning brotherly love ye have no need that we should write to you, for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another. 10  For also ye do this towards all the brethren in the whole of Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound still more, 11  and to seek earnestly to be quiet and mind your own affairs, and work with your own hands, even as we charged you, 12  that ye may walk reputably towards those without, and may have need of no one.