1 Thessalonians 4:3

Appeal For Continuing Sanctification

² For you remember what instructions we gave you on the authority of the Lord Jesus. ³ It is God's will that you should be consecrated, that you abstain from immorality, ⁴ that each of you learn to take a wife for himself from pure and honorable motives,

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

So do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord's will is.

Ephesians 5:3-5

But immorality or any form of vice or greed must not be so much as mentioned among you; that would not be becoming in God's people.

Ephesians 6:6

not with mere external service, as though you had only men to please, but like slaves of Christ, carrying out the will of God.

Colossians 1:9

That is why, from the day I first heard of it, I have never given up praying for you and asking God to fill you, through full spiritual wisdom and insight, with a clear knowledge of what his will is,

Colossians 3:5

So treat as dead your physical nature, as far as immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed are concerned; for it is really idolatry.

1 Thessalonians 4:4

that each of you learn to take a wife for himself from pure and honorable motives,

1 Thessalonians 5:23

May God himself, the giver of peace, consecrate you through and through. Spirit, soul, and body, may you be kept sound, and be found irreproachable when our Lord Jesus Christ comes.

2 Thessalonians 2:13

We always have to thank God for you, brothers whom the Lord so loves, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved through consecration by the Spirit and through faith in the truth,

1 Peter 4:2

and no longer lives by what men desire, but for the rest of his earthly life by what God wills.

John 17:17-19

Consecrate them by truth. Your message is truth.

Acts 15:29

that you avoid whatever has been sacrificed to idols, the tasting of blood and of the meat of animals that have been strangled, and immorality. Keep yourselves free from these things and you will get on well. Goodbye."

Romans 6:22

But now that you have been freed from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you get is consecration, and the final result is eternal life.

1 Corinthians 1:30

But you are his children, through your union with Christ Jesus, whom God has made our wisdom??ur uprightness and consecration and redemption,

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, one of your own number, a slave of Christ Jesus, wishes to be remembered to you. He is always standing up for you in his prayers that you may stand fast, like men of mature convictions, whatever God's will for you may be.

1 Peter 1:2

whom God the Father has chosen and predestined by the consecration of the Spirit to be obedient to Jesus Christ, and to be sprinkled with his blood; God bless you and give you perfect peace.

Matthew 7:21

It is not everyone who says to me 'Lord! Lord!' who will get into the Kingdom of Heaven, but only those who do the will of my Father 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 wicked designs, murder, adultery, immorality, stealing, false witness, impious speech.

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 doing the will of him who has sent me, and finishing his work.

John 7:17

Anyone who resolves to do his will will know whether my teaching comes from God, or originates with me.

Acts 15:20

but we should write to them to avoid anything that has been contaminated by idols, immorality, the meat of strangled animals, and the tasting of blood.

Acts 20:32

Now I commit you to the Lord, and to the message of his favor, which will build you up and give you a place among those whom God has consecrated.

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes and turn them from darkness to light and from Satan's control to God, so that they may have their sins forgiven and have a place among those who are consecrated through faith in me.'

Romans 1:29

They revel in every kind of wrongdoing, wickedness, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, quarreling, deceit, and ill-nature.

Romans 12:2

You must not adopt the customs of this world but by your new attitude of mind be transformed so that you can find out what God's will is??hat is good, pleasing, and perfect.

1 Corinthians 5:9-11

I wrote you in my letter not to associate with immoral people??10 not that you are to have nothing whatever to do with the immoral people of the world, any more than with its greedy and grasping people or idolaters, for then you would have to leave the world altogether.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Do you not know that wrongdoers will not have any share in God's kingdom? Do not let anyone mislead you. People who are immoral or idolaters or adulterers or sensual or given to unnatural vice

1 Corinthians 6:13-18

It is true, food is meant for the stomach, and the stomach for the food, but God will put an end to both of them. But the body is not meant for immorality, but for the service of the Lord, and the Lord is for the body to serve.

1 Corinthians 7:2

But there is so much immorality that every man had better have a wife of his own, and every woman a husband of her own.

2 Corinthians 12:21

and that when I come back my God may humiliate me before you, and I may have to mourn over many who have kept on in their old sins and have never repented of the impurity, immorality, and sensuality in which they have indulged.

Galatians 5:19

The things our physical nature does are clear enough??mmorality, impurity, licentiousness,

Ephesians 5:26-27

to consecrate her, after cleansing her with the bath in water through her confession of him,

1 Thessalonians 5:18

Thank God whatever happens. For this is what God through Christ Jesus wants you to do.

Titus 2:14

He gave himself for us, to free us from all wickedness and purify for himself a people of his own, eager to do right.

Hebrews 10:36

but you will need endurance if you are to carry out God's will and receive the blessing he has promised.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage should be respected by everyone, and the marriage relation kept sacred, for vicious and immoral people God will punish.

Hebrews 13:21

fit you by every blessing to do his will, and through Jesus Christ carry out in us what will please him. To him be glory forever and ever. Amen.

1 John 2:17

and the world with its cravings is passing away, but whoever does God's will will endure forever.

Revelation 21:8

But the cowardly, unfaithful, and polluted??urderers, immoral people, those who practice magic or idolatry, and all liars will find themselves in the burning lake of fire and brimstone. This is the second death."

Revelation 22:15

The dogs, those who practice magic or immorality, murderers, idolaters, and anyone who loves falsehood or tells lies will be shut out of it.