1 Thessalonians 4:1-2

Furthermore Το λοιπον, as for what remains to be said, in subserviency to the important end of your being presented before God in the final judgment, perfected in holiness; we beseech you, by the Lord Jesus By his authority, in his name, and for his sake; that as ye have received of us While we were among you; how ye ought to walk If you desire to adorn your Christian profession; so ye would abound more and more Striving continually to make advances in every Christian grace and virtue. Here the apostle reminds the Thessalonian believers that from his first coming among them he had exhorted them to conduct themselves in a holy manner, if they wished to please and continue in the favour of the living and true God, in whom they had believed; and that he had explained to them the nature of that holiness which is acceptable to God. And the same method of exhortation and instruction he undoubtedly followed in all other cities and countries. For you know You cannot but remember; what commandments we gave you Commandments very different from those enjoined by the heathen priests, as pleasing to their pretended deities.