1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 - Appeal For Continuing Sanctification
1 Finally, then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you, by our Lord Jesus, that as you learned from us how you ought to walk and please God, you would abound more and more. 2 For you know what commandments we gave you by our Lord Jesus.
3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you keep yourselves from lewdness; 4 That each one of you know how to keep his vessel in sanctification and in honor, 5 not in passionate desire, as the Gentiles do, who know not God; 6 That no one take advantage of or injure his brother in this matter; because the Lord takes vengeance for all such things, as we also told you before, and fully testified: 7 for God has not called us for uncleanness, but for holiness. 8 Therefore, he that despises, despises not man, but God, who has given us his Holy Spirit.