1 Thessalonians 4:3-8
Legacy Standard Bible
3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: 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, 5 not in [d](E)lustful passion, like the Gentiles who (F)do not know God; 6 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. 7 For (K)God did not call us to (L)impurity, but [e]in sanctification. 8 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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- 1 Thessalonians 4:3 Or fornication
- 1 Thessalonians 4:4 Or acquire
- 1 Thessalonians 4:4 Body, wife
- 1 Thessalonians 4:5 Lit passion of lust
- 1 Thessalonians 4:7 In the state or sphere of
1 Thessalonians 4:3-8
Holman Christian Standard Bible
3 For this is God’s will,(A) your sanctification:(B) that you abstain(C) from sexual immorality, 4 so that each of you knows how to control his own body[a] in sanctification and honor, 5 not with lustful desires,(D) like the Gentiles who don’t know God. 6 This means one must not transgress against and defraud(E) his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger of all these offenses,[b] as we also previously told and warned you. 7 For God has not called us to impurity(F) but to sanctification. 8 Therefore, the person who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who also gives you His Holy Spirit.(G)
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- 1 Thessalonians 4:4 Or to acquire his own wife; lit to possess his own vessel
- 1 Thessalonians 4:6 Lit things
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