Parallel Verses
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,
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
Devotionals containing 1 Thessalonians 4:3
References
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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 already know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you
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Cross References
Ephesians 5:17
Therefore, be ye not unwise, but understanding of what the will of the Lord is.
Ephesians 5:3-5
But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not be once named among you as becomes saints,
Ephesians 6:6
not to be seen as only pleasing men, but as the slaves of the Christ, doing the will of God from within,
Colossians 1:9
For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, asking that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
Colossians 3:5
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil lust, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
1 Thessalonians 4:4
that every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honesty,
1 Thessalonians 5:23
And the very God of peace sanctify you completely, that your spirit, soul, and body be preserved whole without reprehension for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Thessalonians 2:13
But we should always give thanks to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God has from the beginning chosen you to saving health through the sanctification of the Spirit and faith in the truth,
1 Peter 4:2
so that now the time that remains in the flesh, he might live, not unto the lusts of men, but unto the will of God.
John 17:17-19
Sanctify them in thy truth; thy word is the truth.
Acts 15:29
that ye abstain from foods offered to idols and from blood and from things strangled and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Romans 6:22
But now freed from sin and made slaves to God, ye have as your fruit sanctification and as the end, everlasting life.
1 Corinthians 1:30
But of him ye are reborn in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,
Colossians 4:12
Epaphras, who is one of you, a slave of Christ, salutes you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand firm, perfect and fulfilled in all the will of God.
1 Peter 1:2
chosen (according to the foreknowledge of God the Father) in sanctification of the Spirit, to obey and be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus, the Christ, Grace and peace, be multiplied unto you.
Psalm 40:8
I delight to do thy will, O my God; thy law is within my bowels.
Psalm 143:10
Teach me to do thy will, for thou art my God. Let thy good Spirit lead me into the land of uprightness.
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, the same is my brother and sister and mother.
Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
Mark 3:35
For whosoever doeth the will of God, the same is my brother and my sister and my mother.
John 4:34
Jesus said unto them, My food is to do the will of him that sent me and to finish his work.
John 7:17
If anyone desires to do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it is of God or whether I speak of myself.
Acts 15:20
but that we write unto them that they abstain from pollutions of idols and from fornication and from things strangled and from blood.
Acts 20:32
And now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is powerful to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
Acts 26:18
to open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and inheritance among those who are sanctified by the faith that is in me.
Romans 1:29
being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,
Romans 12:2
And be not conformed to this age, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your soul that ye may experience what is that good and well pleasing and perfect will of God.
1 Corinthians 5:9-11
I wrote unto you in an epistle not to associate with fornicators,
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators nor idolaters nor adulterers nor effeminate nor homosexuals
1 Corinthians 6:13-18
Foods are for the belly, and the belly for foods; but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
1 Corinthians 7:2
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
2 Corinthians 12:21
lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and I would have to mourn over many who have sinned already and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
Galatians 5:19
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Ephesians 5:26-27
that he might sanctify and cleanse her in the washing of water by 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 unto himself a people of his own, zealous of good works.
Hebrews 10:36
for patience is necessary, so that after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
Hebrews 12:16
lest there be any fornicator or profane person as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.
Hebrews 13:4
Let marriage be honourable in all and the bed undefiled; but the fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Hebrews 13:21
make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for the ages of the ages. Amen.
1 John 2:17
And the world passes away and the lust thereof, but he that does the will of God abides for ever.
Revelation 21:8
But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.
Revelation 22:15
But outside are the dogs and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and whosoever loves and makes a lie.