1 Thessalonians 4:7

Appeal For Continuing Sanctification

⁶ No one is to wrong or defraud his brother in this matter, for the Lord avenges all such things, as we told you before, in the most solemn terms. ⁷ God has not called us to an unclean life, but to a pure one. ⁸ So whoever disregards this is not disregarding man, but God, who gives you his holy Spirit.

Be Holy

Way of Life

1 Thessalonians 2:3

For our appeal does not rest on a delusion, nor spring from any impure motive; there is no fraud about it.

Romans 8:29-30

For those whom he had marked out from the first he predestined to be made like his Son, so that he should be the eldest of many brothers;

1 Corinthians 1:2

to the church of God at Corinth, to those who are consecrated by union with Christ Jesus, and called as God's people, like all those anywhere who call on the name of Jesus Christ, their Lord as well as ours;

Galatians 5:19

The things our physical nature does are clear enough??mmorality, impurity, licentiousness,

Ephesians 1:4

Through him he chose us out before the creation of the world, to be consecrated and above reproach in his sight in love.

Ephesians 2:10

For he has made us, creating us through our union with Christ Jesus for the life of goodness which God had predestined us to live.

Ephesians 4:1

So I, the prisoner for the Lord's sake, appeal to you to live lives worthy of the summons you have received;

Ephesians 4:19

for they have become callous, and abandoned themselves to sensuality, greedily practicing every kind of vice.

2 Thessalonians 2:13-14

We always have to thank God for you, brothers whom the Lord so loves, because God chose you from the beginning to be saved through consecration by the Spirit and through faith in the truth,

2 Timothy 1:9

He saved us and called us to a consecrated life, not for anything we had done, but of his own accord and out of the mercy which he bestowed upon us ages ago through Christ Jesus,

Hebrews 12:14

Try to be at peace with everyone, and strive for that consecration without which no one can see the Lord.

1 Peter 1:14-16

Like obedient children, do not adapt yourselves to the cravings you used to follow when you were ignorant,

1 Peter 2:9-12

But you are the chosen race, the royal priesthood, the consecrated nation, his own people, so that you may declare the virtues of him who has called you out of darkness into his wonderful light;

1 Peter 2:21-22

That is the life to which you have been called, for Christ himself suffered for you, leaving you an example so that you might follow his footsteps.

2 Peter 2:10

especially those who yield to their physical nature and indulge in passions that defile them, and despise authority. Rash, headstrong men! They stand in no awe of majesty, but deride beings