Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
For, this, is a thing willed of God, your sanctification, - that ye should abstain from unchastity,
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.
Anderson New Testament
For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you keep yourselves from lewdness;
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,
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
Devotionals containing 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 ye know what charges we gave you, through the Lord Jesus. 3 For, this, is a thing willed of God, your sanctification, - that ye should abstain from unchastity, 4 That ye should know, each one of you, how, of his own vessel, to possess himself in sanctification and honour:
Phrases
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Cross References
Ephesians 5:17
For this cause, do not become foolish, but have discernment as to what is the will of the Lord;
Ephesians 5:3-5
But, fornication, and all impurity, or covetousness, let it not be named among you - even as becometh saints;
Ephesians 6:6
Not by way of eye-service as man-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God, from the soul,
Colossians 1:9
For this cause, we also, from the day when we heard of you , cease not, in your behalf, praying and asking - that ye may be filled unto the personal knowledge of his will, in all spiritual wisdom and discernment,
Colossians 3:5
Make dead, therefore, your members that are on the earth - as regardeth fornication, impurity, passion, base coveting, and greed, the which, is idolatry, -
1 Thessalonians 4:4
That ye should know, each one of you, how, of his own vessel, to possess himself in sanctification and honour:
1 Thessalonians 5:23
But, the God of peace himself, hallow you completely, and, entire, might your spirit, and soul, and body, - so as to be unblameable in the Presence of our Lord Jesus Christ, - be preserved!
2 Thessalonians 2:13
But, we, are bound to give thanks unto God continually concerning you, brethren beloved by the Lord, for that God chose you, from the beginning, unto salvation, in sanctification of spirit and belief of truth, -
1 Peter 4:2
To the end that, no longer, in men's covetings, but in God's will, ye may live, the still remaining time.
John 17:17-19
Hallow them in the truth: Thine own word, is, truth:
Acts 15:29
To be abstaining from idol sacrifices, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication, - From which, if ye keep yourselves, ye shall prosper. Fare ye well.
Romans 6:22
Whereas, now, having been freed from sin, and made servants unto God, ye have your fruit for sanctification and, the end, life age-abiding.
1 Corinthians 1:30
But, of him, are, ye, in Christ Jesus, who hath been made wisdom unto us, from God, - both righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
Colossians 4:12
Epaphras who is from among you, a servant of Christ Jesus, saluteth you, - at all times, contending in your behalf in his prayers, that ye may be caused to stand complete and fully assured in everything willed by God;
1 Peter 1:2
Chosen according to the fore-knowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of Spirit, unto obedience and the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ, Favour unto you, and peace, be multiplied!
Psalm 40:8
To do thy good-pleasure, O my God, is my delight, And, thy law, is in the midst of mine inward parts:
Matthew 7:21
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord! Lord! shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens, - but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in the heavens.
Matthew 12:50
For, whosoever shall do the will of my Father who is in the heavens, he, is my, brother, and sister, and mother.
Matthew 15:19
For, out of the heart, come forth wicked designs, - murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, profane speakings:
Mark 3:35
Whosoever shall do the will of God, the same, is my brother and sister and mother.
John 4:34
Jesus saith unto them - My food, is, that I should do the will of him that sent me, and complete, his work.
John 7:17
If any one intend, his will, to do, he shall get to know concerning the teaching - whether it is, of God, or, I, from myself, am speaking,
Acts 15:20
but to write unto them, to abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
Acts 20:32
Now, therefore, I commend you unto the Lord, and unto his word of favour, - which is able to build up and give the inheritance among all the hallowed ones.
Acts 26:18
To open their eyes; that they turn from darkness unto light, and the authority of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins, and an inheritance among them who have been made holy by the faith respecting me.
Romans 1:29
Filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, greed, baseness, full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil disposition,
Romans 12:2
And be not configuring yourselves unto this age, but be transforming yourselves by the renewing of your mind, to the end ye may be proving what is the thing willed by God - the good and acceptable and perfect.
1 Corinthians 5:9-11
I wrote a unto you in my letter - not to be mixing yourselves up with fornicators; -
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Or know ye not that, wrong-doers, shall not inherit, God's kingdom? Be not deceiving yourselves: - neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,
1 Corinthians 6:13-18
Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods; but, God, will set aside, both it and them. The body, however, is not for fornication, but, for the Lord, - and, the Lord, for the body.
1 Corinthians 7:2
But, on account of fornications, let, each man, have, his own wife, and, each woman, have, her own husband:
2 Corinthians 12:21
Lest, when I again come, my God should humble me in regard to you, - and I should grieve over many who had before sinned, and not repented of the impurity, and fornication, and wantonness which they had committed.
Galatians 5:19
Manifest, however, are the works of the flesh, which, indeed, are - fornication, impurity, wantonness,
Ephesians 5:26-27
That, her, he might sanctify, having purified her with the bath of water, in declaration,
1 Thessalonians 5:18
In everything, give thanks, - for, this, is a thing willed of God, in Christ Jesus, towards you:
Titus 2:14
Who gave himself up in our behalf, that he might redeem us from all manner of lawlessness, and purify for himself a people as his own treasure - zealous of noble works.
Hebrews 10:36
For, of endurance, ye have need, in order that, the will of God having done, Ye may bear away, the promise.
Hebrews 12:16
Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, like Esau, - who, for the sake of one meal, yielded up his own firstborn rights;
Hebrews 13:4
Let marriage be honourable in all, and the bed undefiled, for, fornicators and adulterers, God, will judge.
Hebrews 13:21
Fit you, by every good work, for the doing of his will, doing within us, that which is well-pleasing, before him through Jesus Christ: to whom be the glory, unto the ages of ages. Amen.
1 John 2:17
And, the world, passeth away, and the coveting thereof, but, he that doeth the will of God, endureth unto times age-abiding.
Revelation 21:8
But, as for the timid, and disbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all the false, their part, is in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone, - which is the second death.
Revelation 22:15
Outside, are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the unchaste, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one loving and doing falsehood.