5 not with affection of lust, as the Gentiles who do not know God,
6 that no one oppress and defraud his brother in any matter because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
7 For God has not called us unto uncleanness, but unto sanctification.
8 He therefore that despises us, does not despise man, but God, who has also given unto us his Holy Spirit.
9 But as touching love among the brethren, ye need not that I write unto you, for ye yourselves have learned of God that ye are to show charity to one another.
10 And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia, but we beseech you, brethren, that ye continue to grow
11 and that ye procure to be quiet and to do your business and to work with your hands, as we commanded you,