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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Under all circumstances give thanks to God. For this is his will for you as made known in Christ Jesus.

Not every one who says to me 'Master! Master!' will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in Heaven.

For any one who does the will of my Father who is in Heaven is my brother and sister and mother."

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

"My food," replied Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me, and to complete his work.

If any one has the will to do God's will, he will find out whether my teaching is from God, or whether I speak on my own authority.

Do not conform to the fashion of this world; but be transformed by the complete change that has come over your minds, so that you may discern what God's will is--all that is good, acceptable, and perfect.

Therefore do not grow thoughtless, but try to understand what the Lord's will is.

Not only when their eyes are on you, as if you had merely to please men, but as slaves of Christ, who are trying to carry out the will of God.

And therefore we, from the very day that we heard this, have never ceased praying for you, or asking that you may possess that deeper knowledge of the will of God, which comes through all true spiritual wisdom and insight.

Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, sends you his greeting. He is a servant of Christ Jesus, and is always most earnest in your behalf in his prayers, praying that you may stand firm, with a matured faith and with a sure conviction of all that is in accordance with God's will.

You still have need of patient endurance, in order that, when you have done God's will, you may obtain the fulfillment of his promise.

may God make you perfect in everything that is good, so that you may be able to do his will. May he bring out in us all that is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be all glory for ever and ever. Amen.

and so will live the rest of his earthly life guided, not by human passions, but by the will of God.

And the world, and all that it gratifies, is passing away, but he who does God's will remains for ever.

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Each of you recognizing the duty of taking one woman for his wife, purely and honorably,

May God himself, the giver of peace, make you altogether holy; and may your spirits, souls, and bodies be kept altogether faultless until the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Consecrate them by the Truth; thy Message is Truth.

And now I commend you to the Lord and to the Message of his Love--a Message which has the power to build up your characters, and to give you your place among all those who have become Christ's People.

To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God; so that they may receive pardon for their sins, and a place among those who have become God's People, by faith in me.'

But now that you have been set free from the control of Sin, and have become servants to God, the fruit that you reap is an ever-increasing holiness, and the end Immortal Life.

So let it be with you-regard yourselves as dead to sin, but as living for God, through union with Christ Jesus.

To make her holy, after purifying her by the Washing with the Water, according to his promise;

But, Brothers, whom the Lord loves, it is our duty always to thank God about you, for, from the first, God chose you for Salvation through the purifying influence of the Spirit, and your belief in the Truth.

For he gave himself on our behalf, to deliver us from all wickedness, and to purify for himself a People who should be peculiarly his own and eager to do good.

and who were chosen in accordance with the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the consecration of the Spirit, to learn obedience, and to be purified by the sprinkling of the Blood of Jesus Christ, from Peter, an Apostle of Jesus Christ. May blessing and peace be yours in ever-increasing measure.