1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 - Appeal For Continuing Sanctification
1 Finally, brothers, we beg and beseech you in the Lord Jesus to follow our instructions about the way you are to live so as to satisfy God; you are leading that life, but you are to excel in it still further. 2 You remember the 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 sexual vice, 4 that each of you should learn to take a wife for himself chastely and honourably, 5 not to gratify sensual passion like the Gentiles in their ignorance of God ??6 no one is to defraud or overreach his brother in this matter, for the Lord avenges all these sins, as we told you already in our solemn protest against them. 7 God did not call us to be impure but to be consecrated; 8 hence, he who disregards this, disregards not man but the God who gave you his holy Spirit.