1 Thessalonians 4:7

Appeal For Continuing Sanctification

⁶ that no one should do wrong and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord takes vengeance for all such things, as we told you before and solemnly warned you. ⁷ For God did not call us to a life of immorality, but to one of personal purity. ⁸ So whoever rejects this teaching is rejecting not man but God who continues to put His Spirit in you.

Be Holy

Way of Life

1 Thessalonians 2:3

For our appeal did not originate from a delusion or an impure motive; it was not made in fraud;

Romans 1:7

to all those in Rome who are God's loved ones, called to be His people: spiritual blessing and peace be yours from God our Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 8:29-30

For those on whom He set His heart beforehand He marked off as His own to be made like His Son, that He might be the eldest of many brothers;

1 Corinthians 1:2

to the church of God at Corinth, to those who are consecrated by union with Christ Jesus, and called to be God's people, in fellowship with those who anywhere call upon the name of Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:

Galatians 5:19

Now the practices of the lower nature are clear enough: Sexual immorality, impurity, sensuality,

Ephesians 1:4

Through Him He picked us out before the creation of the world, to be consecrated and above reproach in His sight in love.

Ephesians 2:10

For He has made us what we are, because He has created us through our union with Christ Jesus for doing good deeds which He beforehand planned for us to do.

Ephesians 4:1

So I, a prisoner for the Lord's sake, entreat you to live lives worthy of the call you have received,

Ephesians 4:19

for in their recklessness they have abandoned themselves to sensuality which leads to excessive practices of all sorts of immorality.

2 Thessalonians 2:13-14

We ought always to be thanking God for you, brothers dearly loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through the Spirit's consecration of you and through your faith in the truth,

2 Timothy 1:9

For He saved us and called us with a holy call, not in accordance with anything that we had done, but in accordance with His own purpose and unmerited favor which was shown us through union with Christ Jesus eternal ages ago,

Hebrews 12:14

Continue to live in peace with everybody and strive for that consecration without which no one can see the Lord.

1 Peter 1:14-16

As obedient children, stop molding your character by the evil desires you used to cherish when you did not know any better,

1 Peter 2:9-12

But you are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, the people to be His very own, to proclaim the perfections of Him who called you out of darkness into His wonderful light.

1 Peter 2:21-22

Indeed, it was to this kind of living that you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example that you might follow His footsteps.

2 Peter 2:10

especially those who satisfy their lower nature by indulging in its evil passions which defile them, and who despise authority. Daring, headstrong men! They do not tremble when they abuse persons of majesty,