How To Please God In Private & Public 1 Thessalonians 4:1 (NLT) Live to Please God Finally, dear brothers and sisters, we urge you in the name of the Lord Jesus to live in a way that pleases God, as we have taught you. Live to God. 1 Thessalonians 4:3,7 (NLT) 3 God’s will is for you to be holy…7 God has called us to live holy lives, not impure lives. Jesus compels us to live upstream both & . Privately: Stay away from lust trouble. 3…so stay away from all sexual sin. 4 Then each of you will control his own body and live in holiness and honor—5 not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways. 6 Never harm or cheat a fellow believer in this matter by violating his wife, for the Lord avenges all such sins, as we have solemnly warned you before. 8 Therefore, anyone who refuses to live by these rules is not disobeying human teaching but is rejecting God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you. Publicly: Stay focused on your own hard work. 1 Thessalonians 4:11–12 (NLT) 11 Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed you before. 12 Then people who are not believers will respect the way you live, and you will not need to depend on others.