1 Thessalonians 4:3

Appeal For Continuing Sanctification

² For you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus. ³ For this is God’s will, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality, ⁴ so that each of you knows how to control his own body in sanctification and honor,

Abstain from

Be Holy

Desires of the Flesh

Of the Flesh

Purpose of God

Set Apart

Sexual Immorality

Will of God

Sin

Ephesians 5:17

So don’t be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.

Ephesians 5:3-5

But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints.

Ephesians 6:6

Don’t work only while being watched, in order to please men, but as slaves of Christ, do God’s will from your heart.

Colossians 1:9

For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

Colossians 3:5

Therefore, put to death what belongs to your worldly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

1 Thessalonians 4:4

so that each of you knows how to control his own body in sanctification and honor,

1 Thessalonians 5:23

Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely. And may your spirit, soul, and body be kept sound and blameless for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Thessalonians 2:13

But we must always thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God has chosen you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the truth.

1 Peter 4:2

in order to live the remaining time in the flesh, no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.

John 17:17-19

Sanctify them by the truth;
Your word is truth.

Acts 15:29

that you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. You will do well if you keep yourselves from these things.

Farewell.

Romans 6:22

But now, since you have been liberated from sin and have become enslaved to God, you have your fruit, which results in sanctification—and the end is eternal life!

1 Corinthians 1:30

But it is from Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became God-given wisdom for us—our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption,

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of you, a slave of Christ Jesus, greets you. He is always contending for you in his prayers, so that you can stand mature and fully assured in everything God wills.

1 Peter 1:2

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and set apart by the Spirit for obedience and for sprinkling with the blood of Jesus Christ.

May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

Psalm 40:8

I delight to do Your will, my God;
Your instruction lives within me.”

Psalm 143:10

Teach me to do Your will,
for You are my God.
May Your gracious Spirit
lead me on level ground.

Matthew 7:21

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord!’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of My Father in heaven.

Matthew 12:50

For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven, that person is My brother and sister and mother.”

Matthew 15:19

For from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

Mark 3:35

Whoever does the will of God is My brother and sister and mother.”

John 4:34

“My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work,” Jesus told them.

John 7:17

If anyone wants to do His will, he will understand whether the teaching is from God or if I am speaking on My own.

Acts 15:20

but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood.

Acts 20:32

“And now I commit you to God and to the message of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes so they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that by faith in Me they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified.’

Romans 1:29

They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

Romans 12:2

Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.

1 Corinthians 5:9-11

I wrote to you in a letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be deceived: No sexually immoral people, idolaters, adulterers, or anyone practicing homosexuality,

1 Corinthians 6:13-18

“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will do away with both of them. The body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

1 Corinthians 7:2

But because sexual immorality is so common, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.

2 Corinthians 12:21

I fear that when I come my God will again humiliate me in your presence, and I will grieve for many who sinned before and have not repented of the moral impurity, sexual immorality, and promiscuity they practiced.

Galatians 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity,

Ephesians 5:26-27

to make her holy, cleansing her with the washing of water by the word.

1 Thessalonians 5:18

Give thanks in everything,
for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

Titus 2:14

He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to cleanse for Himself a people for His own possession, eager to do good works.

Hebrews 10:36

For you need endurance, so that after you have done God’s will, you may receive what was promised.

Hebrews 12:16

And make sure that there isn’t any immoral or irreverent person like Esau, who sold his birthright in exchange for one meal.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage must be respected by all, and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge immoral people and adulterers.

Hebrews 13:21

equip you with all that is good to do His will, working in us what is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ. Glory belongs to Him forever and ever. Amen.

1 John 2:17

And the world with its lust is passing away, but the one who does God’s will remains forever.

Revelation 21:8

But the cowards, unbelievers, vile, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars—their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying.