2. You know all that we told you to do by the authority of the Lord Jesus.
3. God wants you to be holy. He wants you to stay away from sexual sins.
4. God wants each one of you to learn to control your own body. Use your body in a way that is holy and that gives honor to God.
5. Don’t let your sexual desires control you like the people who don’t know God.
6. Never wrong any of your fellow believers or cheat them in this way. The Lord will punish those who do that. We have already told you this and warned you about it.
7. God chose us to be holy. He does not want us to live in sin.
8. So anyone who refuses to obey this teaching is refusing to obey God, not us. And God is the one who gives you his Holy Spirit.
9. We don’t need to write to you about having love for your brothers and sisters in Christ. God has already taught you to love each other.
10. In fact, you love all the believers in Macedonia. We encourage you now, brothers and sisters, to show your love more and more.