1 Thessalonians 4:3

Appeal For Continuing Sanctification

² Ye remember what commandments we gave you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. ³ For this is the will of God, even that ye should be holy, and that ye should abstain from fornication, ⁴ that every one of you should know how to keep his vessel in holiness and honour,

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

Wherefore, be ye not unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Ephesians 5:3-5

So that fornication, and all uncleanness or covetousness, be not once named among you, as it becometh saints:

Ephesians 6:6

not with service in the eyesight, as men-pleasers: but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart

Colossians 1:9

For this cause we also, since the day we heard of it have not ceased praying for you, and desiring that ye might be fulfilled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

Colossians 3:5

Mortify therefore your members which are on the earth; fornication, uncleanness, unnatural lust, evil concupiscence, and covetousness which is worshipping of idols:

1 Thessalonians 4:4

that every one of you should know how to keep his vessel in holiness and honour,

1 Thessalonians 5:23

The very God of peace sanctify you throughout. And I pray God that your whole spirit, soul, and body, be kept faultless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Thessalonians 2:13

But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, for because that God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctifying of the spirit; And through believing the truth:

1 Peter 4:2

that he henceforward should live as much time as remaineth in the flesh, not after the lusts of men: but after the will of God.

John 17:17-19

"Sanctify them with thy truth. Thy saying is truth.

Acts 15:29

that is to say: that ye abstain from things offered to images, from blood, from strangled and fornication. From which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. So fare ye well."

Romans 6:22

But now are ye delivered from sin, and made the servants of God, and have your fruit that ye should be sanctified; and the end: everlasting life.

1 Corinthians 1:30

And unto him pertain ye, in Christ Jesus, which of God is made unto us wisdom, and also righteousness, and sanctifying, and redemption.

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras the servant of Christ, which is one of you, saluteth you, and always laboureth fervently for you in prayers that ye may stand perfect, and full in all that is the will of God.

1 Peter 1:2

Elect by the foreknowledge of God the father, through the sanctifying of the spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Grace be with you, and peace be multiplied.

Psalm 40:8

that I should fulfill thy will, O my God. I am content to do it; yea, thy law is within my heart."

Psalm 143:10

Teach me to do the thing that pleaseth thee; for thou art my God. Let thy loving spirit lead me forth into the land of righteousness.

Matthew 7:21

"Not all they that say unto me, 'Lord, Lord,' shall enter in to the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth my father's will which is in heaven.

Matthew 12:50

For whosoever doth my father's will which is in heaven, the same is my brother, my sister, and my mother."

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, breaking of wedlock, whoredom, theft, false witness-bearing, blasphemy.

Mark 3:35

For whosoever doeth the will of God, he is my brother, my sister and mother."

John 4:34

Jesus said unto them, "My meat is to do the will of him that sent me. And to finish his work.

John 7:17

If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God: or whether I speak of myself.

Acts 15:20

but that we write unto them, that they abstain themselves from filthiness of images, from fornication, from strangled, and from blood.

Acts 20:32

And now dear brethren I commend you to God and to the word of his grace, which is able to build further, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes that they might turn from darkness unto light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith in me.'

Romans 1:29

being full of all unrighteous doing: of fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness, full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, evil-conditioned whisperers,

Romans 12:2

And fashion not yourselves like unto this world: But be changed through the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what thing that good, that acceptable, and perfect will of God is.

1 Corinthians 5:9-11

I wrote unto you in an epistle that ye should not company with fornicators.

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Do ye not remember how that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived. For neither fornicators, neither worshippers of images, neither whoremongers, neither weaklings, neither abusers of themselves with mankind,

1 Corinthians 6:13-18

Meats are ordained for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Let not the body be applied unto fornication, but unto the Lord, and the Lord unto the body.

1 Corinthians 7:2

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his wife: and let every woman have her husband.

2 Corinthians 12:21

I fear lest when I come again, God bring me low among you, and I be constrained to bewail many of them which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness, and fornication, and wantonness which they have committed.

Galatians 5:19

The deeds of the flesh are manifest, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, wantonness,

Ephesians 5:26-27

to sanctify it, and cleansed it in the fountain of water through the word,

1 Thessalonians 5:18

In all things give thanks. For this is the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.

Titus 2:14

which gave himself for us, to redeem us from all unrighteousness, and to purge us a peculiar people unto himself, fervently given unto good works.

Hebrews 10:36

For ye have need of patience, that after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

Hebrews 12:16

and that there be no fornicator, or unclean person, as Esau, which for one breakfast sold his birthright.

Hebrews 13:4

Let wedlock be had in price in all points, and let the chamber be undefiled: for whore keepers and adulterers God will judge.

Hebrews 13:21

make you perfect in all good works, to do his will, working in you that which is pleasant in his sight through Iesus Christ: To whom be praise for ever while the world endureth. Amen.

1 John 2:17

And the world vanisheth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God, abideth ever.

Revelation 21:8

But the fearful and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."

Revelation 22:15

For without shall be dogs and enchanters, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth or maketh lies.