1 Thessalonians 4:1-8

New American Standard Bible 1995

Sanctification and Love

4 ^(A)Finally then, ^(B)brethren, we request and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us instruction as to how you ought to ^[a](C)walk and ^(D)please God (just as you actually do ^[b]walk), that you ^(E)excel still more. ² For you know what commandments we gave you ^[c]by the authority of the Lord Jesus. ³ For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you ^(F)abstain from ^[d]sexual immorality; ⁴ that ^(G)each of you know how to ^[e]possess his own ^[f](H)vessel in sanctification and ^(I)honor, ⁵ not in ^[g](J)lustful passion, like the Gentiles who ^(K)do not know God; ⁶ and that no man transgress and ^(L)defraud his brother ^(M)in the matter because ^(N)the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also ^(O)told you before and solemnly warned you. ⁷ For ^(P)God has not called us for ^(Q)the purpose of impurity, but ^[h]in sanctification. ⁸ So, he who rejects this is not rejecting man but the God who ^(R)gives His Holy Spirit to you.