1 Thessalonians 4:3-8

New Century Version

³ God wants you to be holy and to stay away from sexual sins. ⁴ He wants each of you to learn to control your own body^[a] in a way that is holy and honorable. ⁵ Don’t use your body for sexual sin like the people who do not know God. ⁶ Also, do not wrong or cheat another Christian in this way. The Lord will punish people who do those things as we have already told you and warned you. ⁷ God called us to be holy and does not want us to live in sin. ⁸ So the person who refuses to obey this teaching is disobeying God, not simply a human teaching. And God is the One who gives us his Holy Spirit.