For this reason also I am giving continual thanks to God, because when you heard from me the spoken word of God, you received it not as the word of men, but as the word of God (which in truth it is), who himself is effectually at work in you believe.

For this is God's will, even your sanctification; that you should abstain from sexual vice.

So that he who rejects this is not rejecting man, but the God who gave you his Holy Spirit.

As indeed you do love all the brothers in Macedonia. But I exhort you, brothers, to abound in this yet more.

For this I tell you by the word of the Lord, that we who are living, who survive unto the coming of the Lord, will in no wise precede those who have fallen asleep.

Give thanks in every circumstance, for this is the will of God for you in Christ Jesus.

I adjure you, in the name of the Lord, to have this letter read to all the brothers.