1 Thessalonians 4:3

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Summary

1 Thessalonians 4:3

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

This

Your

General references

Leviticus 20:7

Bible References

This

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

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

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

“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.

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

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

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

Jesus told them.

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

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.

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

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

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,

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.

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

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.

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

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

Your

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

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.

Sanctify

them by the truth;

Your word is truth.

“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.

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.’

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!

So, you too consider yourselves dead to sin but alive to God in Christ Jesus.

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

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.

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.

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.

General references

Consecrate yourselves and be holy, for I am Yahweh your God.