1 Thessalonians 4:2
Verse 2 of 18. The 4th of 5 chapters in 1 Thessalonians, in The Letters of Paul.
1Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.
2For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
3For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
4that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honor,
5not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,
6that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.
World English Bible. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.