1 Thessalonians 3:12–4:10

¹²And may the Lord cause you to increase and overflow with love ^gfor one another ^hand for everyone, just as we also do for you. ¹³May He make your hearts blameless ⁱin holiness ^jbefore our God and Father at the coming ^kof our Lord ^lJesus with all His saints. Amen. ^m

The Call to Sanctification

4Finally then, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us how you must walk and please God—as you are doing ⁿ—do so even more. ²For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

³For this is God’s will, ^oyour sanctification: ^pthat you abstain ^qfrom sexual immorality, ⁴so that each of you knows how to control his own body ^rin sanctification and honor, ⁵not with lustful desires, ^slike the Gentiles who don’t know God. ⁶This means one must not transgress against and defraud ^this brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger of all these offenses, ^uas we also previously told and warned you. ⁷For God has not called us to impurity ^vbut to sanctification. ⁸Therefore, the person who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who also gives you His Holy Spirit. ^w

Loving and Working

⁹About brotherly love: You don’t need me to write you because you yourselves are taught by God ^xto love one another. ^y10In fact, you are doing this toward all the brothers in the entire region of Macedonia. ^zBut we encourage you, brothers, to do so even more,