1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 - Appeal For Continuing Sanctification
1 As to what remains therefore, my brethren, we intreat and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received instructions from us, how ye ought to walk and to please God, ye would abound therein more and more. 2 For ye know what commandments we gave you from the Lord Jesus.
3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification: that ye should abstain from fornication, 4 and that every one of you should possess his vessel in sanctification and honor, 5 not in the passion of lust, like the heathens who know not God. 6 That no one over-reach, or wrong his brother in any thing: because the Lord is an avenger of all such crimes, as we also told you before, and testified to you. 7 For God hath not called us to impurity, but to holiness. 8 He therefore who rejecteth us, rejecteth not man, but God; who hath given us his holy Spirit.