2. For you know what commands we gave to you through the Lord Jesus.
3. For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;
4. that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
5. not in lustful passion, just as also the Gentiles who do not know God;
6. not to transgress and to exploit his brother in the matter, because the Lord is the one who avenges concerning all these things, just as also we told you beforehand and testified solemnly.
7. For God did not call us to impurity, but in holiness.
8. Therefore the one who rejects this is not rejecting man, but God, who also gives his Holy Spirit to you.
9. But concerning brotherly love, I do not have need to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
10. for indeed you are practicing it toward all the brothers in all of Macedonia. But we urge you, brothers, to progress even more,
11. and to aspire to live a quiet life, and to attend to your own business, and to work with your hands, just as we commanded you,
12. so that you may live decently toward those outside, and may have need of nothing.
13. Now we do not want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you will not grieve as also the rest, who have no hope.