1 Thessalonians 4:1-5

International Standard Version

Instructions on the Way Christians Should Live

4 Now then, brothers, you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God, as in fact you are doing. We ask and encourage you in the Lord to do so even more. ² You know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. ³ For it is God’s will that you be sanctified: You must abstain from sexual immorality. ⁴ Each of you must know how to control his own body^[a] in a holy and honorable manner, ⁵ not with passion and lust like the gentiles who do not know God.