Living to Please God
Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more. Col 1:102Th 1:32Pe 3:18Heb 13:162Pe 1:5-10Php 1:91Th 4:10-12Rom 12:1-2 For you know the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus. Mat 28:20Ezk 3:171Co 9:212Th 3:102Th 3:6
For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality; 1Pe 4:2Rom 12:21Th 5:23Heb 13:4Col 3:5Eph 5:171Th 4:4Eph 5:3-5 each of you must know how to control his own body 1in holiness and honor, 1Co 7:9Rom 12:1Heb 13:41Co 6:151Pe 3:7Rom 6:191Co 6:18-201Co 7:2 not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God; Gal 4:8Act 17:30-31Eph 4:17-192Th 1:8Col 3:51Co 15:341Pe 4:3Eph 2:12 and no one should ever violate or exploit his brother in this regard, 2 because the Lord will avenge all such acts, as we have already told you and solemnly warned you. Heb 13:4Exo 20:15Exo 20:17Rom 12:19Pro 28:24Rom 1:18Deu 32:35Ezk 22:13 For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness. Lev 11:441Pe 2:9-12Eph 1:41Pe 1:14-161Pe 2:21-22Lev 19:2Rom 8:29-302Pe 2:10 Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit. 1Jn 3:24Luk 10:161Sa 8:7Jhn 12:482Pe 1:21Pro 1:7Pro 23:9Rom 5:5
Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another. 1Jn 3:11Rom 12:101Jn 3:231Jn 4:21Heb 13:1Jhn 13:34-351Jn 2:101Pe 4:8 And you are indeed showing this love to all the brothers throughout Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to excel more and more Php 1:91Th 3:122Th 1:31Th 1:72Co 8:1-22Co 8:8-10Php 3:13-151Th 4:1 and to aspire to live quietly, to attend to your own matters, and to work with your own hands, as we instructed you. Ecc 4:6Eph 4:281Pe 3:4Tit 3:14Pro 17:1Lam 3:261Ti 2:21Co 4:12 Then you will behave properly toward outsiders, without being dependent on anyone. Col 4:51Pe 2:12Rom 12:171Ti 3:7Rom 13:131Pe 3:16-17Mrk 4:111Th 5:22
The Return of the Lord
Brothers, we do not want you to be uninformed about those who sleep in death, 3 so that you will not grieve like the rest, who are without hope. Dan 12:21Th 4:151Th 5:101Co 15:18-192Pe 3:41Co 15:6Act 7:60Eph 2:12 For since we believe that Jesus died and rose again, we also believe that God will bring with Jesus those who have fallen asleep in Him. Rom 8:11Php 3:20-21Isa 26:192Co 4:13-141Th 4:131Th 3:131Th 4:17Rev 1:18
By the word of the Lord, we declare to you that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who have fallen asleep. 1Co 15:51-532Co 4:141Th 2:191Ki 13:17-18Psa 88:131Ki 13:11Ki 20:35Mat 17:25 For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a loud command, with the voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in Christ will be the first to rise. 1Co 15:51-52Rev 1:7Mat 24:30-311Co 15:23Mat 16:27Mat 25:312Th 1:7Isa 27:13 After that, we who are alive and remain will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will always be with the Lord. 1Co 15:52Rev 11:12Jhn 14:31Th 4:15Rev 1:7Rev 7:14-17Dan 7:13Jhn 17:24
Therefore encourage one another with these words. 1Th 5:111Th 5:14Luk 21:28Heb 10:24-25Isa 40:1-2Heb 12:12