1 Thessalonians 4:3

Appeal For Continuing Sanctification

² For you know what instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus. ³ For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that is, that you should abstain from sexual immorality; ⁴ that each one of you know how to take his own spouse for himself in holiness and honor,

Abstain from

Be Holy

Desires of the Flesh

Of the Flesh

Purpose of God

Set Apart

Sexual Immorality

Will of God

Sin

Ephesians 5:17

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

Ephesians 5:3-5

But immorality or any impurity or greed must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.

Ephesians 6:6

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

Colossians 1:9

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,

Colossians 3:5

Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire and greed, which is idolatry.

1 Thessalonians 4:4

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

1 Thessalonians 5:23

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.

2 Thessalonians 2:13

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.

1 Peter 4:2

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

John 17:17-19

Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.

Acts 15:29

that you abstain from things sacrificed to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication. If you keep yourselves free from these, you will do well. Farewell."

Romans 6:22

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.

1 Corinthians 1:30

It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption,

Colossians 4:12

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.

1 Peter 1:2

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.

Matthew 7:21

"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.

Matthew 12:50

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

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, fornications, theft, false witness, slander.

Mark 3:35

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

John 4:34

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

John 7:17

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.

Acts 15:20

but that we should write to them to abstain from the pollutions of idols and from fornication and from what is strangled and from blood.

Acts 20:32

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.

Acts 26:18

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.'

Romans 1:29

They were filled with all manner of wickedness, evil, covetousness, depravity. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice; they are gossips,

Romans 12:2

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.

1 Corinthians 5:9-11

I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people;

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither the immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor sexual perverts,

1 Corinthians 6:13-18

"Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food"but God will destroy them both. The body is not meant for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

1 Corinthians 7:2

But because of immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.

2 Corinthians 12:21

I am afraid that when I come again my God will humble me before you, and I will have to mourn over many of those who sinned before and have not repented of the impurity, immorality, and lewdness which they have practiced.

Galatians 5:19

Now the deeds of the flesh are obvious: immorality, impurity, lewdness,

Ephesians 5:26-27

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

1 Thessalonians 5:18

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

Titus 2:14

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.

Hebrews 10:36

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

Hebrews 12:16

that no one be immoral or godless like Esau, who sold his own birthright for a single meal.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the marriage bed be undefiled; for God will judge the immoral and adulterous.

Hebrews 13:21

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.

1 John 2:17

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

Revelation 21:8

But as for the cowardly, the unbelieving, the immoral, as for murderers, fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death."

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the immoral persons and the murderers and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.