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For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you (A)abstain from [a]sexual immorality; that (B)each of you know how to [b]possess his own [c](C)vessel in sanctification and (D)honor, not in [d](E)lustful passion, like the Gentiles who (F)do not know God; and that no man transgress and (G)defraud his brother (H)in the matter because (I)the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also (J)told you before and solemnly warned you. For (K)God did not call us to (L)impurity, but [e]in sanctification. Consequently, he who sets this aside is not setting aside man but the God who (M)gives His Holy Spirit to you.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 4:3 Or fornication
  2. 1 Thessalonians 4:4 Or acquire
  3. 1 Thessalonians 4:4 Body, wife
  4. 1 Thessalonians 4:5 Lit passion of lust
  5. 1 Thessalonians 4:7 In the state or sphere of