1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 - Appeal For Continuing Sanctification
1 Now, brothers, we ask and entreat you, in the name of the Lord Jesus, to live as you learned from us that you must live, to please God??s indeed you are doing, only do it more and more. 2 For you remember what instructions we gave you on the authority of the Lord Jesus.
3 It is God's will that you should be consecrated, that you abstain from immorality, 4 that each of you learn to take a wife for himself from pure and honorable motives, 5 not to gratify his passion, like the heathen who know nothing of God. 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.