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3 For this is athe will of God, byour sanctification: cthat you should abstain from sexual immorality;  
4 athat each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,  
5 anot in passion of lust, blike the Gentiles cwho do not know God;  
6 that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord ais the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified.  
7 For God did not call us to uncleanness, abut in holiness.  
8 aTherefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, bwho has also given us His Holy Spirit.  

A Brotherly and Orderly Life

9 But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for ayou yourselves are taught by God bto love one another;  
10 and indeed you do so toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, athat you increase more and more;  
11 that you also aspire to lead a quiet life, ato mind your own business, and bto work with your own hands, as we commanded you,  
12 athat you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and that you may lack nothing.  

The Comfort of Christ’s Coming

13 But I do not want you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen1 asleep, lest you sorrow aas others bwho have no hope.  
14 For aif we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him bthose who sleep in Jesus.  
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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1 Thessalonians 4:5

Not in the lust of concupiscence - Having no rational object, aim, nor end. Some say, "not like beasts;" but this does not apply as they who use it wish, for the males and females of the brute creation are regular and consistent in their intercourse, and scarcely ever exceed such bounds as reason itself would prescribe to those most capable of observing and obeying its dictates.

The Gentiles which know not God - These are the beasts; their own brutes are rational creatures when compared with them. Enough has been said on this subject on Romans 1, and 2: They who wish to see more may consult Juvenal, and particularly his 6th and 9th Satires; and indeed all the writers on Greek and Roman morals.


 
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