¹Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
²For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

³For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
⁴that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
⁵not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
⁶that no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
⁷For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
⁸He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.

King James Version 1611 (Authorized Version). Copyright status: UK English with BFBS additions © 2011 British and Foreign Bible Society; Crown Copyright in UK