1 Thessalonians 4:1-7

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

4 For the rest therefore, brethren, we pray and beseech you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us, how you ought to walk, and to please God, so also you would walk, that you may abound the more.

² For you know what precepts I have given to you by the Lord Jesus.

³ For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that you should abstain from fornication;

⁴ That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour:

⁵ Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles that know not God:

⁶ And that no man overreach, nor circumvent his brother in business: because the Lord is the avenger of all these things, as we have told you before, and have testified.

⁷ For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto sanctification.