1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 - Appeal For Continuing Sanctification
1 For the rest, brethren, we request and exhort you, in our Lord Jesus, that, even as ye received from us, how ye must needs walk and please God, - even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more. 2 For ye know what charges we gave you, through the Lord Jesus.
3 For, this, is a thing willed of God, your sanctification, - that ye should abstain from unchastity, 4 That ye should know, each one of you, how, of his own vessel, to possess himself in sanctification and honour: 5 Not with a passion of coveting, - just as even the nations who know not God, - 6 Not over-reaching and defrauding, in the matter, his brother; because, an avenger, is the Lord, concerning all these things, - even as we before told you, and solemnly called you to witness. 7 For God did not call us, with a permission of impurity, but, in sanctification. 8 Therefore, indeed, he that disregardeth - it is, not a man, he disregardeth, but God, - Who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you.