1 Thessalonians 4:7 - Revised Standard Version

For God has not called us for uncleanness, but in holiness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For God has not called us to impurity but to consecration [to dedicate ourselves to the most thorough purity].

American Standard Version (1901)

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

Common English Bible

God didn’t call us to be immoral but to be dedicated to him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For God has not called us to impurity, but to sanctification.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto sanctification.

1 Thessalonians 4:7 Cross References

Leviticus 11:44

For I am the Lord your God; consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls upon the earth.

Leviticus 19:2

“Say to all the congregation of the people of Israel, You shall be holy; for I the Lord your God am holy.

Romans 1:7

To all God's beloved in Rome, who are called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 1:2

To the church of God which is at Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:

Galatians 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are plain: fornication, impurity, licentiousness,

Ephesians 1:4

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him.

Ephesians 2:10

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.

Ephesians 4:1

I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called,

Ephesians 4:19

they have become callous and have given themselves up to licentiousness, greedy to practice every kind of uncleanness.

1 Thessalonians 2:3

For our appeal does not spring from error or uncleanness, nor is it made with guile;

2 Timothy 1:9

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not in virtue of our works but in virtue of his own purpose and the grace which he gave us in Christ Jesus ages ago,

Hebrews 12:14

Strive for peace with all men, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

2 Peter 2:10

and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and wilful, they are not afraid to revile the glorious ones,