Parallel Verses
Anderson New Testament
For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you keep yourselves from lewdness;
New American Standard Bible
For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you
King James Version
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
Holman Bible
For this is God’s will,
International Standard Version
For it is God's will that you be sanctified: You must abstain from sexual immorality.
A Conservative Version
For this is the will of God, your sanctification, for you to abstain from fornication,
American Standard Version
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;
Amplified
For this is the will of God, that you be sanctified [separated and set apart from sin]: that you abstain and back away from sexual immorality;
An Understandable Version
For it is God's will that you should be dedicated to Him, [that is], you should avoid sexual immorality.
Bible in Basic English
For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh;
Common New Testament
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that is, that you should abstain from sexual immorality;
Daniel Mace New Testament
and such is the will of God, that you should be holy, and avoid licentiousness;
Darby Translation
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;
Godbey New Testament
For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you abstain from fornication;
Goodspeed New Testament
It is God's will that you should be consecrated, that you abstain from immorality,
John Wesley New Testament
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;
Julia Smith Translation
For this is the will of God, your consecration, that ye should keep away from fornication:
King James 2000
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication:
Lexham Expanded Bible
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: [that] you abstain from sexual immorality;
Modern King James verseion
For this is the will of God, your sanctification, for you to abstain from fornication,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For this is the will of God, even that ye should be holy, and that ye should abstain from fornication,
Moffatt New Testament
It is God's will that you should be consecrated, that you abstain from sexual vice,
Montgomery New Testament
For this is God's will, even your sanctification; that you should abstain from sexual vice.
NET Bible
For this is God's will: that you become holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality,
New Heart English Bible
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
Noyes New Testament
For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;
Sawyer New Testament
For this is the will of God, your purity, that you should abstain from fornication,
The Emphasized Bible
For, this, is a thing willed of God, your sanctification, - that ye should abstain from unchastity,
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from whoredom;
Twentieth Century New Testament
For this is God's purpose--that you should be pure; abstaining from all immorality;
Webster
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from lewdness.
Weymouth New Testament
For this is God's will--your purity of life, that you abstain from fornication;
Williams New Testament
For it is God's will that you should keep pure in person, that you should practice abstinence from sexual immorality,
World English Bible
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
Worrell New Testament
For this is the will of God??ven your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;
Worsley New Testament
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification: that ye should abstain from fornication,
Youngs Literal Translation
for this is the will of God -- your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,
Themes
Asceticism » General references to
Defrauding » Not defrauding others
Despisement » Who despises the lord
Despisement » Those that despise the commandments of the lord
Sanctification » Should exhort their people to walk in
Sanctification » Mortification of sin
Sanctification » God wills all saints to have
Sexual activities » What sexual activities are forbidden
Social duties » Brotherly love » Chastity
teaching » Who the lord teaches
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Devotionals about 1 Thessalonians 4:3
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Thessalonians 4:3
Prayers for 1 Thessalonians 4:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Appeal For Continuing Sanctification
2 For you know what commandments we gave you by our Lord Jesus. 3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you keep yourselves from lewdness; 4 That each one of you know how to keep his vessel in sanctification and in honor,
Phrases
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Cross References
Ephesians 5:17
Wherefore, be not ignorant, but understand what the will of the Lord is.
Ephesians 5:3-5
But lewdness, and all manner of uncleanness, or covetousness, let them not be named among you, as it becomes saints;
Ephesians 6:6
not with eye-service, as pleasing men, but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul;
Colossians 1:9
For this reason, we also, from the day in which we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to request that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
Colossians 3:5
Put to death, therefore, your members that are on the earth, lewdness, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
1 Thessalonians 4:4
That each one of you know how to keep his vessel in sanctification and in honor,
1 Thessalonians 5:23
Now the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Thessalonians 2:13
But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God did, from the beginning, choose you to salvation, by sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth,
1 Peter 4:2
so that he no longer lives the rest of his time in the flesh, according to the desires of men, but according to the will of God.
John 17:17-19
Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth.
Acts 15:29
That you abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from lewdness; from which if you keep yourselves carefully, you will do well. Farewell.
Romans 6:22
But now, since you have been made free from sin, and have become servants to God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, eternal life.
1 Corinthians 1:30
But of him are you in Christ Jesus, who has become to us, from God, wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption;
Colossians 4:12
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, salutes you; he always strives earnestly for you in his prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
1 Peter 1:2
elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by the sanctification of the Spirit, in order to obedience, and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: grace be to you, and peace be multiplied.
Matthew 7:21
Not every one that says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 12:50
For whoever will do the will of my Father who is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
Matthew 15:19
For from the heart come evil reasonings, murders, adulteries, lewd actions, thefts, false testimonies, impious words.
Mark 3:35
for whoever will do the will of God, is my brother, and my sister, and mother.
John 4:34
Jesus said to them: My food is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
John 7:17
If any one will do his will, he shall know with respect to the teaching, whether it is of God, or I speak of myself.
Acts 15:20
but that we write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from lewdness, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
Acts 20:32
And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace; to Him who is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all the sanctified.
Acts 26:18
in order to open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins, and an inheritance among the sanctified, by faith in me.
Romans 1:29
as they were filled with all unrighteousness, lewdness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, contention, deceit, malignity;
Romans 12:2
And be not conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may learn what the will of God is the good, and the acceptable, and the perfect.
1 Corinthians 5:9-11
I have written to you in the letter not to associate with lewd persons;
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither lewd persons, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites,
1 Corinthians 6:13-18
Meats for the stomach, and the stomach for meats; but God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for lewdness, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body:
1 Corinthians 7:2
But, to avoid lewd practices, let every man have his own wife, and every woman her own husband.
2 Corinthians 12:21
lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and I shall mourn over many of those who have already sinned, and have not repented of the uncleanness and lewdness and wantonness which they have committed.
Galatians 5:19
Now the works of the flesh are well known, and they are these lewdness, uncleanness, wantonness,
Ephesians 5:26-27
that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the bath of water through the word,
1 Thessalonians 5:18
in every thing give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
Titus 2:14
who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
Hebrews 10:36
For you have need of patience, that, after you have done the will of God, you may receive the promise.
Hebrews 12:16
lest there be any lewd person, or profane man, as Esau, who, for a single meal, sold his birthright.
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage is honorable among all men, and the bed undefiled; but lewd men and adulterers God will judge.
Hebrews 13:21
perfect you in every good work, in order that you may do his will, working in you that which is acceptable in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory from age to age. Amen.
1 John 2:17
And the world and its desire passes away: but he that does the will of God, abides forever.
Revelation 21:8
But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the detestable, and murderers and lewd persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, shall have their part in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
Revelation 22:15
With out are dogs and sorcerers and lewd persons and murderers and idolaters, and every one that loves and makes a lie.