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God wants you to be holy and to stay away from sexual immorality. He wants each one of you to learn how to take a wife[a] in a way that is holy and honorable. Don’t give in to lust like people who do not know God.

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  1. 4:4 learn . . . wife This might also mean “learn to control your own body.”

It is God’s will(A) that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;(B) that each of you should learn to control your own body[a](C) in a way that is holy and honorable, not in passionate lust(D) like the pagans,(E) who do not know God;(F)

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  1. 1 Thessalonians 4:4 Or learn to live with your own wife; or learn to acquire a wife