1 Thessalonians 4:3

Appeal For Continuing Sanctification

² For ye know what commandments we gave you from the Lord Jesus. ³ For this is the will of God, even your sanctification: that ye should abstain from fornication, ⁴ and that every one of you should 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 not thoughtless, but consider what is the will of the Lord.

Ephesians 5:3-5

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or inordinate desire, let it not be even named among you; for so it becometh saints:

Ephesians 6:6

not with eye-service as men-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

Colossians 1:9

For this cause we also, from the day that we heard it, cease not to pray for you, and to request that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding:

Colossians 3:5

Mortify therefore your members that are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, disorderly passion, evil concupiscence, and insatiable desire, which is indeed idolatry:

1 Thessalonians 4:4

and that every one of you should possess his vessel in sanctification and honor,

1 Thessalonians 5:23

And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you wholly: and grant that your whole frame, spirit, soul, and body may be kept blameless to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Thessalonians 2:13

But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brethren beloved of 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 should no longer live the rest of his time in the flesh according to the lusts of men, but after the will of God.

John 17:17-19

Sanctify them by thy truth: thy word is truth.

Acts 15:29

That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from what has been strangled, and from fornication: from which ye will do well to keep yourselves. Farewel.

Romans 6:22

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

1 Corinthians 1:30

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

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you; who always strives earnestly for you in his prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God:

1 Peter 1:2

Asia, and Bithynia, chosen according to the fore-knowledge of God, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience, and to the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ,---may grace and peace be multiplied unto you.

Matthew 7:21

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

Matthew 12:50

for whosoever doth the will of my Father who is in heaven, he is to me as my brother and sister and mother.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart proceed wicked disputings, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false-witnessings, slanders:

Mark 3:35

for whosoever doth the will of God, he is to me as my brother, my sister, and mother.

John 4:34

Jesus saith unto them, My food is to do the will of Him that sent me, and to finish his work.

John 7:17

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

Acts 15:20

that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

Acts 20:32

And now, my brethren, I recommend you to God, and to the word of his grace: who is able to edify you, and to give you an inheritance among all that 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 forgiveness of sins, and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me.

Romans 1:29

being filled with all injustice, lewdness, wickedness, covetousness, malignity; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and every evil habit; whisperers,

Romans 12:2

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may experience what is the good, and acceptable, and perfect will of God.

1 Corinthians 5:9-11

I wrote to you in an epistle, not to associate with whoremongers:

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

What! know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the effeminate, nor sodomites,

1 Corinthians 6:13-18

meats are for the belly, and the belly for meats, but God will destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.

1 Corinthians 7:2

Nevertheless to prevent whoredoms, let every one have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

2 Corinthians 12:21

when I come again, my God should humble me among you, and I should be grieved for many of those who have sinned heretofore, and have not repented of the impurity, and fornication, and lewdness which they have practised.

Galatians 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, such as, adultery, fornication, uncleanness,

Ephesians 5:26-27

to sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word,

1 Thessalonians 5:18

In every circumstance be thankful; 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 having done the will of God ye may receive the promise.

Hebrews 12:16

least there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one repast gave away his birthright.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed is not defiled: but whoremongers 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 desire of it: but he, that doth the will of God, abideth for ever.

Revelation 21:8

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

Revelation 22:15

But without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and every one that loveth and practiseth falshood.