1 Thessalonians 4:3
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;”
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“For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:”
King James Version · Public Domain“For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo 1 Thessalonians 4:3 — 24 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 15:18If a man lies with a woman and there is an emission of semen, both must bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.
- Psalms 40:8I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
- Psalms 143:10Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God. May Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.
- Matthew 7:21Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
- Matthew 12:50For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”
- Matthew 15:19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.
- Mark 3:35For whoever does the will of God is My brother and sister and mother.”
- John 4:34Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.
- John 7:17If anyone desires to do His will, he will know whether My teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own.
- John 17:17Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.
- Acts 15:20Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.
- Acts 15:29You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.
- Acts 20:32And now I commit you to God and to the word of His grace, which can build you up and give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.
- Acts 26:18to open their eyes, so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’
- Romans 1:29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,
- Romans 6:22But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves to God, the fruit you reap leads to holiness, and the outcome is eternal life.
- Romans 12:2Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
- 1 Corinthians 1:30It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.
- 1 Corinthians 5:9I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.
- 1 Corinthians 6:9Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
- 1 Corinthians 6:13“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
- 1 Corinthians 7:2But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
- 2 Corinthians 12:21I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.
- Galatians 5:19The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
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