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Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort [you] by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, [so] ye would abound more and more.

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For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

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For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

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

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Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

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That no [man] go beyond and defraud his brother in [any] matter: because that the Lord [is] the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.

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For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

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He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.

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But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

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And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more

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And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you

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That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and [that] ye may have lack of nothing.