1   Furthermore we besech you brethren, ∧ exhorte you by the Lorde Iesus, that ye encrease more and more, as ye haue receaued of vs, how ye ought to walke and to please God.

2   For ye knowe what commaundementes we gaue you by the Lorde Iesus.

3   For this is the wyll of God, ^note your holynesse, ^note that ye should abstayne from fornication:

4   That euery one of you should knowe ^note how to possesse his vessell in holynesse and honour:

5   Not in the lust of concupiscence, ^note euen as the gentiles, which knowe not God. B   

6   That no man oppresse and defraude his brother in [any] matter, because that the Lorde is the auenger of all suche: as we also haue forewarned you, and testified.

7   For God hath not called vs vnto vncleanenesse, but into holynesse. &lhand;

8    ^noteHe therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath geuen to you ^note his holy spirite. &lhand;

9   &rhand; But as touchyng brotherly ^note loue, ye nede not that I write vnto you: ^note For ye are taught of God to loue one another. C   

10   Yea and that thyng veryly ye do vnto all þe; brethren which [are] in al Macedonia: But we beseche you brethren, that ye encrease more and more:

11   And that ye studie to be quiet, and to do your owne [busynesse] and ^note to worke with your owne handes as we commaunded you:

12   That ye may walke honestly toward them that are without, ∧ that nothyng be lackyng in you. &lhand;

13   &rhand; But I woulde not haue you to be ignoraunt brethren, concernyng them which sleepe, that ye ^note sorowe not euen as other, which ^note haue no hope.

14   For yf we beleue that Iesus dyed and rose agayne: euen so them also whiche sleepe by Iesus, wyll God bryng with hym. D   

15   For this say we vnto you in the worde of the Lorde, that we whiche ^note lyue, remayning vnto the c&obar;myng of the Lord, shall not preuent them which sleepe.

16   For the Lorde hym selfe shal descende from heauen in a shoute, [and] in the voyce of the ^note Archangell, and in the trumpe of God: And the dead in Christ shall aryse first.

17   Than we which lyue, which remaine, shalbe caught vp together with them in the cloudes, to meete the Lorde in the ayre: And so shall we euer be with the Lorde.

18   Wherfore comfort your selues one another in these wordes. &lhand;

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