1 Thessalonians 4:3

Appeal For Continuing Sanctification

² For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. ³ For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from lewdness. ⁴ That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification 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

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

Ephesians 5:3-5

But lewdness and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;

Ephesians 6:6

Not with eye-service, 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 it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye may 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; lewdness, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

1 Thessalonians 4:4

That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor;

1 Thessalonians 5:23

And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved blameless to 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 by the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit, and belief of the truth:

1 Peter 4:2

That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

John 17:17-19

Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

Acts 15:29

That ye abstain from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from lewdness: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye will do well. Fare ye well.

Romans 6:22

But now being made free from sin, and having become servants to God, ye have your fruit to holiness, and the end everlasting life.

1 Corinthians 1:30

But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who from God is made to us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

1 Peter 1:2

Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace, be multiplied.

Psalm 40:8

I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

Psalm 143:10

Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.

Matthew 7:21

Not every one that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 12:50

For whoever shall do the will of my Father who is in heaven, 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 whoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

John 4:34

Jesus saith to them, My food 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 concerning the doctrine, whether it is from God, or whether I speak from myself.

Acts 15:20

But that we write to them that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from lewdness, 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 able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them who are sanctified.

Acts 26:18

To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them who are sanctified by 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 world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good and acceptable, and perfect will of God.

1 Corinthians 5:9-11

I have written to you in this epistle, not to associate with persons guilty of lewdness:

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

1 Corinthians 6:13-18

Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God will destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for lewdness, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

1 Corinthians 7:2

Nevertheless, to avoid lewdness, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

2 Corinthians 12:21

And lest, when I come again, my God may humble me among you, and I shall bewail many who have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness, and lewdness, 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 it with 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 to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

Hebrews 10:36

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

Hebrews 12:16

Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birth-right.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but lewd persons 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 well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

1 John 2:17

And the world passeth away, and the lust of it: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

Revelation 21:8

But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and lewd men, 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 are dogs, and sorcerers, and lewd men, and murderers, and idolaters, and whoever loveth and maketh a lie.