1 Thessalonians 3:12–4:10

¹²and may the Lord cause you to increase and ^aabound in love for one another, and for all people, just as we also do for you;

¹³so that He may ^aestablish your hearts ^bwithout blame in holiness before ^cour God and Father at the ^1dcoming of our Lord Jesus ^ewith all His ²saints.

Chapter 4

Sanctification and Love

^1aFinally then, ^bbrethren, we request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us instruction as to how you ought to ^1cwalk and ^dplease God (just as you actually do walk), that you ^eexcel still more.

²For you know what commandments we gave you ¹by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

³For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you ^aabstain from ¹sexual immorality;

⁴that ^aeach of you know how to ¹possess his own ^2bvessel in sanctification and ^chonor,

⁵not in ^1alustful passion, like the Gentiles who ^bdo not know God;

⁶and that no man transgress and ^adefraud his brother ^bin the matter because ^cthe Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also ^dtold you before and solemnly warned you.

⁷For ^aGod has not called us for ^bthe purpose of impurity, but ¹in sanctification.

⁸So, he who rejects this is not rejecting man but the God who ^agives His Holy Spirit to you.

⁹Now as to the ^alove of the brethren, you ^bhave no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are ^ctaught by God to love one another;

¹⁰for indeed ^ayou do practice it toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, to ^bexcel still more,