Add parallel Print Page Options

not to gratify passion[a] like the Gentiles who do not know God. No one is ever to wrong or take advantage of a brother in this regard.

As we have previously instructed you and solemnly warned you, the Lord is the avenger in all this. For God has called us to holiness, not to impurity. Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 4:5 Acquire a wife . . . gratify passion: another possible translation is: “control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable and not to succumb to lustful passion.”

(A)not in passion of lust, (B)like the Gentiles (C)who do not know God; that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord (D)is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified. For God did not call us to uncleanness, (E)but in holiness.

Read full chapter