1 Thessalonians 4:3
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3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;(A)
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1 Peter 4:2
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2 so as to live for the rest of your time in the flesh no longer by human desires but by the will of God.(A)
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1 Thessalonians 5:23
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23 May the God of peace himself sanctify you entirely, and may your spirit and soul and body be kept sound[a] and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.(A)
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Romans 12:2
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2 Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of the mind, so that you may discern what is the will of God—what is good and acceptable and perfect.[a](A)
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- 12.2 Or what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God
Hebrews 13:4
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4 Let marriage be held in honor by all, and let the marriage bed be kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.(A)
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Ephesians 5:17
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17 So do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.(A)
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Colossians 3:5
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5 Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).(A)
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1 Thessalonians 4:4
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4 that each one of you know how to control your own body[a] in holiness and honor,
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- 4.4 Or control your own vessel or take a wife for yourself
Ephesians 5:3-5
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Renounce Pagan Ways
3 But sexual immorality and impurity of any kind or greed must not even be mentioned among you, as is proper among saints.(A) 4 Entirely out of place is obscene, silly, and vulgar talk; but instead, let there be thanksgiving. 5 Be sure of this, that no sexually immoral or impure person or one who is greedy (that is, an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.(B)
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Galatians 5:19
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19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery,(A)
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1 John 2:17
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17 And the world and its desire[a] are passing away, but those who do the will of God abide forever.(A)
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- 2.17 Or the desire for it
Revelation 21:8
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8 But as for the cowardly, the faithless,[a] the polluted, the murderers, the sexually immoral,[b] the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”(A)
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2 Thessalonians 2:13
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Chosen for Salvation
13 But we must always give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the first fruits[a] for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the truth.(A)
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- 2.13 Other ancient authorities read from the beginning
Ephesians 5:26-27
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26 in order to make her holy by cleansing her with the washing of water by the word, 27 so as to present the church to himself in splendor, without a spot or wrinkle or anything of the kind, so that she may be holy and without blemish.(A)
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1 Corinthians 6:9-11
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9 Do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! The sexually immoral, idolaters, adulterers, male prostitutes,[a] men who engage in illicit sex,[b](A) 10 thieves, the greedy, drunkards, revilers, swindlers—none of these will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And this is what some of you used to be. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ[c] and in the Spirit of our God.(B)
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John 17:17-19
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17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth. 18 As you have sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world.(A) 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, so that they also may be sanctified in truth.
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Matthew 7:21
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Concerning Self-Deception
21 “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.(A)
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1 Corinthians 7:2
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2 But because of cases of sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.
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1 Corinthians 6:13-18
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13 “Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food,”[a] and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is meant not for sexual immorality but for the Lord and the Lord for the body.(A) 14 And God raised the Lord and will also raise us by his power.(B) 15 Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I therefore take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never!(C) 16 Do you not know that whoever is united to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For it is said, “The two shall be one flesh.”(D) 17 But anyone united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.(E) 18 Shun sexual immorality![b] Every sin that a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person[c] sins against the body itself.(F)
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Psalm 143:10
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10 Teach me to do your will,
for you are my God.
Let your good spirit lead me
on a level path.(A)
Hebrews 10:36
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36 For you need endurance, so that when you have done the will of God you may receive what was promised.(A)
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Ephesians 6:6
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6 not with a slavery performed merely for looks, to please people, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul.
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Acts 15:29
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29 that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled[a] and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”(A)
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Psalm 40:8
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8 I delight to do your will, O my God;
your law is within my heart.”(A)
1 Peter 1:2
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2 who have been chosen and destined by God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit to be obedient to Jesus Christ and to be sprinkled with his blood:
May grace and peace be yours in abundance.(A)
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