¹For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in [the] Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.

¹¶ Heoi, e oku teina, he mea tenei na matou, he whakahau ki a koutou i roto i te Ariki, i a Ihu, kua riro atu na hoki ta matou i a koutou, a e meinga na hoki e koutou, ara te tikanga mo ta koutou haere, mo ta koutou whakamanawareka atu ki te Atua, n a, kia tino hira rawa tera a koutou.

²For ye know what charges we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

²E matau ana hoki koutou ki nga tikanga i whakatakotoria atu e matou ki a koutou i roto i te Ariki, i a Ihu.

³For this is [the] will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;

³Ko ta te Atua hoki tenei e pai ai, ara ko to koutou whakatapunga, kia mawehe koutou i te moepuku.

⁴that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour,

⁴Kia matau koutou katoa ki tona tinana, ki tona tinana, kia mau i runga i te tapu, i te honore.

⁵(not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God,)

⁵Kaua i runga i te toronga o te hiahia, kei rite ki nga tauiwi kahore nei e matau ki te Atua.

⁶not overstepping the rights of and wronging his brother in the matter, because the Lord [is] the avenger of all these things, even as we also told you before, and have fully testified.

⁶Kia kaua tetahi e tinihanga, e whakapati i te mea a tona teina; no te mea ko te Ariki te kairapu utu mo era mahi katoa; ko ta matou hoki ia i korero ai i mua, i whakaatu atu ai ki a koutou.

⁷For God has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.

⁷Kihai hoki tatou i karangatia e te Atua ki te poke, engari ki te tapu.

⁸He therefore that [in this] disregards [his brother], disregards, not man, but God, who has given also his Holy Spirit to you.

⁸Na, ko te tangata e whakakorekore ana, ehara tana i te whakakorekore ki te tangata, engari ki te Atua, nana nei i homai tona Wairua Tapu ki a tatou.

⁹Now concerning brotherly love ye have no need that we should write to you, for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

⁹¶ Ko te aroha ia ki nga teina, kahore a koutou mea e tuhituhi atu ai ahau ki a koutou; he mea whakaako hoki koutou na ano e te Atua ki te aroha tetahi ki tetahi.

¹⁰For also ye do this towards all the brethren in the whole of Macedonia; but we exhort you, brethren, to abound still more,

¹⁰Ko ta koutou hoki tena e mea na ki nga teina katoa a puta noa i Makeronia. Heoi he whakahau ano tenei na matou ki a koutou, e oku teina, kia hira rawa tena a koutou.

¹¹and to seek earnestly to be quiet and mind your own affairs, and work with your [own] hands, even as we charged you,

¹¹Me whai hoki kia ata noho, kia mahi i a koutou na ake mahi, kia mahi ko o koutou ringaringa, kia rite ki ta matou i ako ai ki a koutou;

¹²that ye may walk reputably towards those without, and may have need of no one.

¹²Kia ataahua ai ta koutou haere ki te hunga o waho, kia kaua ai e hapa tetahi mea.

¹³But we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them that are fallen asleep, to the end that ye be not grieved even as also the rest who have no hope.

¹³¶ E kore ia matou e pai, e oku teina, kia kuware koutou ki te hunga kua moe, kei koingo koutou, kei pera me era atu kahore nei o ratou tumanakotanga atu.

¹⁴For if we believe that Jesus has died and has risen again, so also God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep through Jesus.

¹⁴Ki te whakapono hoki tatou kua mate a Ihu, kua ara ake ano, waihoki ko te hunga e moe ana i roto i a Ihu, ka arahina tahitia mai ratou me ia e te Atua.

¹⁵(For this we say to you in [the] word of [the] Lord, that *we*, the living, who remain to the coming of the Lord, are in no way to anticipate those who have fallen asleep;

¹⁵Ko ta matou korero hoki tenei ki a koutou, he mea ki mai na te Ariki, ko tatou, ko te hunga kua mahue ki te ora, ki te taenga mai o te Ariki, e kore e pahika atu ki mua o te hunga kua moe.

¹⁶for the Lord himself, with an assembling shout, with archangel's voice and with trump of God, shall descend from heaven; and the dead in Christ shall rise first;

¹⁶No te mea ko te Ariki pu ano e heke iho i te rangi me te karanga, me te reo o te tino anahera, me te tetere a te Atua; a ko te hunga kua mate i roto i a te Karaiti e ara i mua.

¹⁷then *we*, the living who remain, shall be caught up together with them in [the] clouds, to meet the Lord in [the] air; and thus we shall be always with [the] Lord.

¹⁷Ko reira tatou, te hunga kua mahue ki te ora, kahakina ngatahitia atu ai me ratou i runga i nga kapua, ki te whakatau ki te Ariki i te rangi: na ka noho tonu tatou ki te Ariki.

¹⁸So encourage one another with these words.)

¹⁸Na, he kupu enei hei whakamarie ma koutou tetahi i tetahi.