¹ Furthermore then, brethren, we beseech you, and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received from us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye are walking, ye would abound still more; ² for ye know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

³ For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication; ⁴ that every one of you should know how to procure for himself his own vessel in purity and honor, ⁵ not in the passion of lust, even as the gentiles who know not God; ⁶ that no one should go beyond and overreach his brother in the matter; because the Lord is the avenger in respect to all these things, as we also told you before and solemnly testified. ⁷ For God did not call us to live in uncleanness, but in purity. ⁸ He therefore that rejecteth, rejecteth not man, but God, who also gave to you his Holy Spirit.