[1] Furthermore then we beseech brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of how ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more. [2] For ye know what commandments we gave by the Lord Jesus. [3] For the will of God, sanctification, from fornication: [4] That every one should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; [5] Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: [6] That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all as also testified. [7] For God not called unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. [8] He therefore that despiseth, not man, but God, also given unto his holy Spirit. [9] But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write for yourselves taught of God to love one another. [10] And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech brethren, that ye increase more and more; [11] And that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with own hands, as we commanded [12] That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.