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1 Thessalonians 4:3-4
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3 It is God’s will(A) that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;(B) 4 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
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1 Thessalonians 4:3-4
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3 For this is the will of God, (A)your sanctification:[a] (B)that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each one of you know how to control his own (C)body[b] in holiness and (D)honor,

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  1. 1 Thessalonians 4:3 Or your holiness
  2. 1 Thessalonians 4:4 Or how to take a wife for himself; Greek how to possess his own vessel
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1 Thessalonians 4:3-4
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3 For this is God’s will,(A) your sanctification:(B) that you keep away(C) from sexual immorality, 4 that each of you knows how to control his own body[a] in holiness and honor,

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  1. 4:4 Or to acquire his own wife; lit to possess his own vessel
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1 Thessalonians 4:3-4
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3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you (A)abstain from [a]sexual immorality; 4 that (B)each of you know how to [b]possess his own [c](C)vessel in sanctification and (D)honor,

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