1 Thessalonians 4:3-5

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³For this is the will of God, your sanctification:^[a] that you abstain from immorality;^[b] ⁴that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, ⁵not in the passion of lust like heathen who do not know God;

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Footnotes

4.3 sanctification: With special reference to the practice of purity, specially difficult to those newly converted from paganism.
4.3 immorality: i.e., sexual immorality.

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