1 So for what remains, brethren, we ask and we encourage you by Prince Yahshua, that just as you have received from us, to walk in that manner which is necessary for us and to please Yahweh, even just as you do walk, that you should abound still more.2 For you know what instructions we gave to you by Prince Yahshua.3 For this is the will of Yahweh: your sanctification; you are to abstain from fornication;4 each of you are to know to possess one's own vessel in sanctification and in honor,5 not in emotions of passion just as even the nations who do not know Yahweh;6 not to be excessive and to be greedy in business with one's brother, since the Prince is an avenger concerning all these things, just as also we have forewarned and affirmed to you.7 For Yahweh has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.8 So then, he who is rejecting rejects not man, but Yahweh, who is also giving His Holy Spirit to you.9 Now concerning brotherly love, you have no need to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by Yahweh for which to love one another.10 You also do this toward all the brethren in the whole of Makedonia, and we encourage you, brethren, to abound more,11 and endeavor earnestly to be at rest, and to be busy with your own affairs and to work with your own hands, just as we have instructed you,12 in order that you would walk decently compared with those outside, and would have need of no one.13 Now we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who are falling asleep, in order that you would not be grieved, and just as the rest who have no expectation.14 For if we believe that Yahshua had died and rose up, in this manner Yahweh also through Yahshua will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep.15 For this we say to you by word of the Prince: that we, the living, those left remaining until the coming of the Prince, no way would come before those who have fallen asleep;16 because the Prince Himself with a command, by a chief messenger's voice and with a trumpet of Yahweh shall descend from heaven, and those dead among the number of the Anointed shall rise up first.17 Then we, the living who are remaining, at once with them shall be carried off in clouds for a meeting with the Prince in air, and in that manner always with the Prince we shall be.18 So encourage one another with these words.