1 Thessalonians 3:12–4:10

¹²And may the Lord make you increase and ^mabound in love to one another and to all, just as we do to you, ¹³so that He may establish ⁿyour hearts blameless in holiness before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all His saints.

Plea for Purity

4Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus ^athat you should abound more and more, ^bjust as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God; ²for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

³For this is ^cthe will of God, ^dyour sanctification: ^ethat you should abstain from sexual immorality; ^4fthat each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor, ^5gnot in passion of lust, ^hlike the Gentiles ⁱwho do not know God; ⁶that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord ^jis the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified. ⁷For God did not call us to uncleanness, ^kbut in holiness. ^8lTherefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, ^mwho ¹has also given us His Holy Spirit.

A Brotherly and Orderly Life

⁹But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for ⁿyou yourselves are taught by God ^oto love one another; ¹⁰and indeed you do so toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, ^pthat you increase more and more;