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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In every circumstance of life be thankful; for this is God's will in Christ Jesus respecting you.

"Not every one who says to me, 'Master, Master,' will enter the Kingdom of the Heavens, but only those who are obedient to my Father who is in Heaven.

To obey my Father who is in Heaven--that is to be my brother and my sister and my mother."

"Here are my mother and my brothers. For wherever there is one who has been obedient to God, there is my brother--my sister--and my mother."

"My food," said Jesus, "is to be obedient to Him who sent me, and fully to accomplish His work.

If any one is willing to do His will, he shall know about the teaching, whether it is from God or originates with me.

And do not follow the customs of the present age, but be transformed by the entire renewal of your minds, so that you may learn by experience what God's will is--that will which is good and beautiful and perfect.

On this account do not prove yourselves wanting in sense, but try to understand what the Lord's will is.

Let it not be in acts of eye-service as if you had but to please men, but as Christ's bondservants who are doing God's will from the heart.

For this reason we also, from the day we first received these tidings, have never ceased to pray for you and to entreat that you may be filled with a clear knowledge of His will accompanied by thorough wisdom and discernment in spiritual things;

Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, a bondservant of Jesus Christ, sends greetings to you, always wrestling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand firm--Christians of ripe character and of clear conviction as to everything which is God's will.

For you stand in need of patient endurance, so that, as the result of having done the will of God, you may receive the promised blessing.

fully equip you with every grace that you may need for the doing of His will, producing in us that which will truly please Him through Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory to the Ages of the Ages! Amen.

that in future you may spend the rest of your earthly lives, governed not by human passions, but by the will of God.

And the world, with its cravings, is passing away, but he who does God's will continues for ever.

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that each man among you shall know how to procure a wife who shall be his own in purity and honour;

And may God Himself who gives peace, make you entirely holy; and may your spirits, souls and bodies be preserved complete and be found blameless at the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Make them holy in the truth: Thy Message is truth.

"And now I commend you to God and to the word of His grace. He is able to build you up and to give you your inheritance among His people.

that they may turn from darkness to light and from the obedience to Satan to God, in order to receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified through faith in Me.'

But now that you have been set free from the tyranny of Sin, and have become the bondservants of God, you have your reward in being made holy, and you have the Life of the Ages as the final result.

In the same way you also must regard yourselves as dead in relation to sin, but as alive in relation to God, because you are in Christ Jesus.

in order to make her holy, cleansing her with the baptismal water by the word,

And from us thanks are always due to God on your behalf--brethren whom the Lord loves--because God from the beginning has chosen you for salvation through the Spirit's sanctifying influence and your belief in the truth.

who gave Himself for us to purchase our freedom from all iniquity, and purify for Himself a people who should be specially His own, zealous for doing good works.

chosen in accordance with the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, with a view to their obedience and to their being sprinkled with the blood of Jesus Christ. May more and more grace and peace be granted to you.