帖撒罗尼迦前书4:1-8
1弟兄们，我还有话说。我们靠着主耶稣求你们，劝你们，你们既然受了我们的教训，知道该怎样行，可以讨神的喜悦，就要照你们现在所行的，更加勉励。2你们原晓得我们凭主耶稣传给你们什么命令。3神的旨意就是要你们成为圣洁，远避淫行。4要你们各人晓得怎样用圣洁尊贵，守着自己的身体。5不放纵私欲的邪情，像那不认识神的外邦人。6不要一个人在这事上越分，欺负他的弟兄。因为这一类的事，主必报应，正如我预先对你们说过，又切切嘱咐你们的。7神召我们，本不是要我们沾染污秽，乃是要我们成为圣洁。8所以那弃绝的，不是弃绝人，乃是弃绝那赐圣灵给你们的神。
1Finally, dear brothers and sisters,#4:1 Greek brothers; also in 4:10, 13. we urge you in the name of the Lord Jesus to live in a way that pleases God, as we have taught you. You live this way already, and we encourage you to do so even more. 2For you remember what we taught you by the authority of the Lord Jesus. 3God’s will is for you to be holy, so stay away from all sexual sin. 4Then each of you will control his own body#4:4 Or will know how to take a wife for himself; or will learn to live with his own wife; Greek reads will know how to possess his own vessel. and live in holiness and honor— 5not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways. 6Never harm or cheat a fellow believer in this matter by violating his wife,#4:6 Greek Never harm or cheat a brother in this matter. for the Lord avenges all such sins, as we have solemnly warned you before. 7God has called us to live holy lives, not impure lives. 8Therefore, anyone who refuses to live by these rules is not disobeying human teaching but is rejecting God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
