1 Thessalonians 4:3

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1 Thessalonians 4:3

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

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give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus.

"Not every one who says to me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.

For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother."

Whoever does the will of God is my brother, and sister, and mother."

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to finish his work.

If anyone is willing to do his will, he shall know whether the teaching is from God or whether I speak on my own authority.

Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

not in the way of eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.

For this reason also, since the day we heard it, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Epaphras, who is one of your number, a servant of Jesus Christ, sends you his greetings, always laboring earnestly for you in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.

For you have need of endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

equip you with every good thing to do his will, working in us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

so as to live the rest of the time in the flesh no longer for human lusts, but for the will of God.

And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

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that each one of you know how to take his own spouse for himself in holiness and honor,

Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you entirely; and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.

And now I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

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

But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the return you get is holiness and its end, eternal life.

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

that he might sanctify her, having cleansed her by the washing of water with the word,

But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.

who gave himself for us to redeem us from all wickedness and to purify for himself a people that are his very own, zealous for good deeds.

who have been chosen according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctifying work of the Spirit, for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling with his blood: may grace and peace be yours in abundance.