1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 - Appeal For Continuing Sanctification
1 Finally, my brethren, we intreat and conjure you by the Lord Jesus Christ, to observe the instructions we gave you about your religious conduct, and to make continual progress therein. 2 for you know the precepts we gave you in the name of the Lord Jesus.
3 and such is the will of God, that you should be holy, and avoid licentiousness; 4 that every one of you should take care to preserve the dignity of his 5 person unsullied by the vices of the Gentiles, who know not God: 6 that no man should be exorbitant, and behave contumeliously to his brother: because the Lord is the avenger of all such crimes, as we have formerly remonstrated to you. 7 for God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness: 8 he therefore that violates these precepts, does not despise man, but God, who has endued me with his holy spirit.