For you know what commandments we gave you [a]by the authority of the Lord Jesus. For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you (A)abstain from [b]sexual immorality; that (B)each of you know how to [c]possess his own [d](C)vessel in sanctification and (D)honor,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 4:2 Lit through the Lord
  2. 1 Thessalonians 4:3 Or fornication
  3. 1 Thessalonians 4:4 Or acquire
  4. 1 Thessalonians 4:4 I.e. body; or wife

For you know what instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

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,

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