1For the rest therefore, brothers and sisters, we pray and beseech you in the Lord Jesus, that as you have received from us, how you ought to walk, and to please God, so also you would walk, that you may abound the more.

2For you know what instructions I have given to you by the Lord Jesus.

3For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that you should abstain from fornication;

4That every one of you should know how to have his container in sanctification and honour:

5Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles that know not God:

6And that no man overreach, nor circumvent his brother in business: because the Lord is the avenger of all these things, as we have told you before, and have testified.

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

8Therefore, he that despiseth these things, despiseth not man, but God, who also has given his holy Spirit in us.

5The mountains melted like wax, at the presence of the Lord: at the presence of the Lord of all the earth.

6The heavens told his righteousness: and all people saw his glory.

10You that love the Lord, hate evil: the Lord preserveth the souls of his saints, he will deliver them out of the hand of the sinner.

11Light is risen to the righteous, and joy to the right of heart.

12Rejoice, you righteous, in the Lord: and give praise to the remembrance of his holiness.

17For Herod himself had sent and apprehended John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, because he had married her.

18For John said to Herod: It is not lawful for you to have your brother's wife.

19Now Herodias laid snares for him: and was desirous to put him to death, and could not.

20For Herod feared John, knowing him to be a righteous and holy man: and kept him, and when he heard him, did many things: and he heard him willingly.

21And when a convenient day was come, Herod made a supper for his birthday, for the leaders, and tribunes, and chief men of Galilee.

22And when the daughter of the same Herodias had come in, and had danced, and pleased Herod, and them that were at table with him, the king said to the damsel: Ask of me what you will, and I will give it you.

23And he swore to her: Whatever you shall ask I will give you, though it be the half of my kingdom.

24Who when she was gone out, said to her mother, What shall I ask? But she said: The head of John the Baptist.

25And when she was come in immediately with haste to the king, she asked, saying: I will that forthwith you give me in a dish, the head of John the Baptist.

26And the king was struck sad. Yet because of his oath, and because of them that were with him at table, he would not displease her:

27But sending an executioner, he commanded that his head should be brought in a dish.

28And he beheaded him in the prison, and brought his head in a dish: and gave it to the damsel, and the damsel gave it to her mother.

29Which his disciples hearing came, and took his body, and laid it in a tomb.