1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 - Appeal For Continuing Sanctification
1 Therefore as to the rest, brethren we ask you, and beseech in the Lord Jesus, as ye received from us how ye must walk and please God, that ye may more abound. 2 For ye know what orders we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
3 For this is the will of God, your consecration, that ye should keep away from fornication: 4 For each of you to know how to possess his vessel in consecration and honour; 5 Not in the passion of eager desire, as also the nations not knowing God: 6 Not to pass over and have the advantage over his brother in business: because the Lord just for all these, as we told you before and testified. 7 But God has not called you to uncleanness, but in consecration. 8 For surely therefore he despising, despises not man, but God, he also giving his holy Spirit for us.