Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more. Col 1:102Th 1:32Pe 3:18Heb 13:162Pe 1:5-10Php 1:91Th 4:10-12Rom 12:1-2 For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. Mat 28:20Ezk 3:171Co 9:212Th 3:102Th 3:6 For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality, 1Pe 4:2Rom 12:21Th 5:23Heb 13:4Col 3:5Eph 5:171Th 4:4Eph 5:3-5 that each one of you know how to control his own body 1 in sanctification and honor, 1Co 7:9Rom 12:1Heb 13:41Co 6:151Pe 3:7Rom 6:191Co 6:18-201Co 7:2 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God, Gal 4:8Act 17:30-31Eph 4:17-192Th 1:8Col 3:51Co 15:341Pe 4:3Eph 2:12 that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified. Heb 13:4Exo 20:15Exo 20:17Rom 12:19Pro 28:24Rom 1:18Deu 32:35Ezk 22:13 For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification. Lev 11:441Pe 2:9-12Eph 1:41Pe 1:14-161Pe 2:21-22Lev 19:2Rom 8:29-302Pe 2:10 Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you. 1Jn 3:24Luk 10:161Sa 8:7Jhn 12:482Pe 1:21Pro 1:7Pro 23:9Rom 5:5
But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are 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 for indeed you do it toward all the brothers who are in all Macedonia. But we exhort you, brothers, that you abound more and more; Php 1:91Th 3:122Th 1:31Th 1:72Co 8:1-22Co 8:8-10Php 3:13-151Th 4:1 and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we instructed you, Ecc 4:6Eph 4:281Pe 3:4Tit 3:14Pro 17:1Lam 3:261Ti 2:21Co 4:12 that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing. Col 4:51Pe 2:12Rom 12:171Ti 3:7Rom 13:131Pe 3:16-17Mrk 4:111Th 5:22
But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope. Dan 12:21Th 4:151Th 5:101Co 15:18-192Pe 3:41Co 15:6Act 7:60Eph 2:12 For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. Rom 8:11Php 3:20-21Isa 26:192Co 4:13-141Th 4:131Th 3:131Th 4:17Rev 1:18 For this we tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left until the coming of the Lord, will in no way 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 shout, with the voice of the archangel and with God’s trumpet. The dead in Christ will rise first, 1Co 15:51-52Rev 1:7Mat 24:30-311Co 15:23Mat 16:27Mat 25:312Th 1:7Isa 27:13 then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. So we will be with the Lord forever. 1Co 15:52Rev 11:12Jhn 14:31Th 4:15Rev 1:7Rev 7:14-17Dan 7:13Jhn 17:24 Therefore comfort one another with these words. 1Th 5:111Th 5:14Luk 21:28Heb 10:24-25Isa 40:1-2Heb 12:12