1 Thessalonians 2:11-12

For you know how we were exhorting and encouraging and imploring each one of you just as a father does (in dealing with) his own children, (guiding you) to live lives (of honor, courage, and personal integrity) worthy of God who (saves you and) calls you into His own kingdom and glory.

Paul is encouraging us like a parent who encourages his children to walk worthy of God who called us. We will be hampered by guilt and sin when we don’t live with integrity. Sin doesn’t draw us closer to God but farther away from Him.  God wants us to be people of honor and integrity and represent God here on this earth.