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For God did not call us for[a] impurity, but in[b] holiness. So-therefore[c] the one rejecting is not rejecting a human, but God, the One also giving His Holy Spirit to you.

But You Know From God To Love One Another. We Exhort You To Abound Even More

But concerning brotherly-love, you have no need that anyone should be writing to you. For you yourselves are God-taught so-that you might be loving one another.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 4:7 That is, for the purpose of.
  2. 1 Thessalonians 4:7 That is, in connection with, in the sphere of.
  3. 1 Thessalonians 4:8 Or, Therefore-for-that-very-reason.

For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.(A) Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject a human being but God, the very God who gives you his Holy Spirit.(B)

Now about your love for one another(C) we do not need to write to you,(D) for you yourselves have been taught by God(E) to love each other.(F)

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