1 Thessalonians 4:3
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1 Peter 4:2
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2 As a result, they do not live the rest of their earthly lives for evil human desires,(A) but rather for the will of God.
1 Thessalonians 5:23
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23 May God himself, the God of peace,(A) sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul(B) and body be kept blameless(C) at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.(D)
Hebrews 13:4
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4 Marriage should be honored by all,(A) and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.(B)
Ephesians 5:17
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17 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.(A)
1 Thessalonians 4:4
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- 1 Thessalonians 4:4 Or learn to live with your own wife; or learn to acquire a wife
Ephesians 5:3-5
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3 But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality,(A) or of any kind of impurity, or of greed,(B) because these are improper for God’s holy people. 4 Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk(C) or coarse joking, which are out of place, but rather thanksgiving.(D) 5 For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure or greedy person—such a person is an idolater(E)—has any inheritance(F) in the kingdom of Christ and of God.[a](G)
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- Ephesians 5:5 Or kingdom of the Messiah and God
Galatians 5:19
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19 The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality,(A) impurity and debauchery;
1 John 2:17
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Revelation 21:8
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8 But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars(A)—they will be consigned to the fiery lake of burning sulfur.(B) This is the second death.”(C)
2 Thessalonians 2:13
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Stand Firm
13 But we ought always to thank God for you,(A) brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you as firstfruits[a](B) to be saved(C) through the sanctifying work of the Spirit(D) and through belief in the truth.
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- 2 Thessalonians 2:13 Some manuscripts because from the beginning God chose you
Ephesians 5:26-27
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26 to make her holy,(A) cleansing[a] her by the washing(B) with water through the word, 27 and to present her to himself(C) as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless.(D)
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- Ephesians 5:26 Or having cleansed
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
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9 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God?(A) Do not be deceived:(B) Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers(C) nor men who have sex with men[a](D) 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers(E) will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And that is what some of you were.(F) But you were washed,(G) you were sanctified,(H) you were justified(I) in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Footnotes
- 1 Corinthians 6:9 The words men who have sex with men translate two Greek words that refer to the passive and active participants in homosexual acts.
John 17:17-19
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Matthew 7:21
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True and False Disciples
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’(A) will enter the kingdom of heaven,(B) but only the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.(C)
1 Corinthians 7:2
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2 But since sexual immorality is occurring, each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman with her own husband.
1 Corinthians 6:13-18
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13 You say, “Food for the stomach and the stomach for food, and God will destroy them both.”(A) The body, however, is not meant for sexual immorality but for the Lord,(B) and the Lord for the body. 14 By his power God raised the Lord from the dead,(C) and he will raise us also.(D) 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ himself?(E) Shall I then take the members of Christ and unite them with a prostitute? Never! 16 Do you not know that he who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body? For it is said, “The two will become one flesh.”[a](F) 17 But whoever is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit.[b](G)
18 Flee from sexual immorality.(H) All other sins a person commits are outside the body, but whoever sins sexually, sins against their own body.(I)
Footnotes
- 1 Corinthians 6:16 Gen. 2:24
- 1 Corinthians 6:17 Or in the Spirit
Psalm 143:10
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Hebrews 10:36
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36 You need to persevere(A) so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.(B)
Ephesians 6:6
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6 Obey them not only to win their favor when their eye is on you, but as slaves of Christ,(A) doing the will of God from your heart.
Acts 15:29
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29 You are to abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals and from sexual immorality.(A) You will do well to avoid these things.
Farewell.
Psalm 40:8
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