1 Thessalonians 4:3-8
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3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;(A) 4 that each one of you know how to control your own body[a] in holiness and honor, 5 not with lustful passion, like the gentiles who do not know God; 6 that no one wrong or exploit a brother or sister in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, just as we have already told you beforehand and solemnly warned you.(B) 7 For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness. 8 Therefore whoever rejects this rejects not human authority but God, who also gives his Holy Spirit to you.
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- 4.4 Or control your own vessel or take a wife for yourself
1 Thessalonians 4:3-8
English Standard Version
3 For this is the will of God, (A)your sanctification:[a] (B)that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each one of you know how to control his own (C)body[b] in holiness and (D)honor, 5 not in (E)the passion of lust (F)like the Gentiles (G)who do not know God; 6 that no one transgress and (H)wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is (I)an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you. 7 For (J)God has not called us for (K)impurity, but in holiness. 8 Therefore (L)whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, (M)who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
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- 1 Thessalonians 4:3 Or your holiness
- 1 Thessalonians 4:4 Or how to take a wife for himself; Greek how to possess his own vessel
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