1 Thessalonians 4:7

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Summary

1 Thessalonians 4:7

For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

God

General references

Leviticus 20:7

Luke 1:75

Bible References

God

For I am the Lord your God: for this reason, make and keep yourselves holy, for I am holy; you are not to make yourselves unclean with any sort of thing which goes about flat on the earth.

Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.

To all those who are in Rome, loved by God, marked out as saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Because those of whom he had knowledge before they came into existence, were marked out by him to be made like his Son, so that he might be the first among a band of brothers:

To the church of God which is in Corinth, to those who have been made holy in Christ Jesus, saints by the selection of God, with all those who in every place give honour to the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:

Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:

For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.

I then, the prisoner in the Lord, make this request from my heart, that you will see that your behaviour is a credit to the position which God's purpose has given you,

But it is right for us to give praise to God at all times for you, brothers, loved by the Lord, because it was the purpose of God from the first that you might have salvation, being made holy by the Spirit and by faith in what is true:

Who gave us salvation, marking us out for his purpose, not on account of our works, but in the measure of his purpose and his grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

Let your desire be for peace with all men, and to be made holy, without which no man may see the Lord;

Like children ruled by God, do not go back to the old desires of the time when you were without knowledge:

But you are a special people, a holy nation, priests and kings, a people given up completely to God, so that you may make clear the virtues of him who took you out of the dark into the light of heaven.

General references

So make and keep yourselves holy, for I am the Lord your God.

In righteousness and holy living before him all our days.