For this is the will of God, (A)your sanctification:[a] (B)that you abstain from sexual immorality;

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  1. 1 Thessalonians 4:3 Or your holiness

(A)so as to live for (B)the rest of the time in the flesh (C)no longer for human passions but (D)for the will of God.

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23 Now may (A)the God of peace himself (B)sanctify you completely, and may your (C)whole (D)spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at (E)the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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(A)Do not be conformed to this world,[a] but be transformed by (B)the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may (C)discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.[b]

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  1. Romans 12:2 Greek age
  2. Romans 12:2 Or what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God

(A)Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled, for God will judge (B)the sexually immoral and adulterous.

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17 Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what (A)the will of the Lord is.

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(A)Put to death therefore (B)what is earthly in you:[a] (C)sexual immorality, impurity, (D)passion, evil desire, and covetousness, (E)which is idolatry.

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  1. Colossians 3:5 Greek therefore your members that are on the earth

that each one of you know how to control his own (A)body[a] in holiness and (B)honor,

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  1. 1 Thessalonians 4:4 Or how to take a wife for himself; Greek how to possess his own vessel

But (A)sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness (B)must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints. Let there be (C)no filthiness nor foolish talk nor crude joking, (D)which are out of place, but instead (E)let there be thanksgiving. For you may be sure of this, that (F)everyone who is sexually immoral or impure, or who is covetous ((G)that is, an idolater), has no inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

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19 Now (A)the works of the flesh are evident: sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,

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17 And (A)the world is passing away along with its desires, but whoever does the will of God abides forever.

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I Never Knew You

21 (A)“Not everyone who (B)says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will (C)enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who (D)does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

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(A)But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the detestable, as for murderers, the sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, (B)their portion will be in (C)the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is (D)the second death.”

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Stand Firm

13 But (A)we ought always to give thanks to God for you, (B)brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you (C)as the firstfruits[a] (D)to be saved, (E)through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.

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  1. 2 Thessalonians 2:13 Some manuscripts chose you from the beginning

26 that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by (A)the washing of water (B)with the word, 27 so (C)that he might present the church to himself in splendor, (D)without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish.[a]

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  1. Ephesians 5:27 Or holy and blameless

Or do you not know that the unrighteous[a] will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: (A)neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality,[b] 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And (B)such were some of you. But (C)you were washed, (D)you were sanctified, (E)you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 6:9 Or wrongdoers
  2. 1 Corinthians 6:9 The two Greek terms translated by this phrase refer to the passive and active partners in consensual homosexual acts

17 (A)Sanctify them[a] in the truth; (B)your word is truth. 18 (C)As you sent me into the world, so I have sent them into the world. 19 And (D)for their sake (E)I consecrate myself,[b] that they also (F)may be sanctified[c] in truth.

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  1. John 17:17 Greek Set them apart (for holy service to God)
  2. John 17:19 Or I sanctify myself; or I set myself apart (for holy service to God)
  3. John 17:19 Greek may be set apart (for holy service to God)

36 For (A)you have need of endurance, so that (B)when you have done the will of God you may (C)receive what is promised.

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not by the way of eye-service, as (A)people-pleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

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But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

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13 (A)“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food”—and God will destroy both one (B)and the other. The body is not meant for sexual immorality, but (C)for the Lord, and (D)the Lord for the body. 14 And (E)God raised the Lord and (F)will also raise us up (G)by his power. 15 Do you not know that (H)your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! 16 Or do you not know that he who is joined[a] to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For, as it is written, (I)“The two will become one flesh.” 17 But he who is joined to the Lord (J)becomes one spirit with him. 18 (K)Flee from sexual immorality. Every other sin[b] a person commits is outside the body, but the sexually immoral person (L)sins against his own body.

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  1. 1 Corinthians 6:16 Or who holds fast (compare Genesis 2:24 and Deuteronomy 10:20); also verse 17
  2. 1 Corinthians 6:18 Or Every sin

10 (A)Teach me to do your will,
    for you are my God!
(B)Let your good Spirit (C)lead me
    on (D)level ground!

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(A)I delight to do your will, O my God;
    your law is (B)within my heart.”

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18 (A)give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

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29 (A)that you abstain from (B)what has been sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”

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