1 Thessalonians 4:3 - New Revised Standard Version

³ For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from fornication;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ For this is the will of God, that you should be consecrated (separated and set apart for pure and holy living): that you should abstain and shrink from all sexual vice,

American Standard Version (1901)

³ For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;

Common English Bible

³ God’s will is that your lives are dedicated to him. This means that you stay away from sexual immorality

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from fornication,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that you should abstain from fornication;

1 Thessalonians 4:3 Cross References

Psalm 143:10

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. Let your good spirit lead me on a level path.

Psalm 40:8

I delight to do your will, O my God; your law is within my heart.”

Leviticus 15:18

If a man lies with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them shall bathe in water, and be unclean until the evening.

Matthew 12:50

For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.”

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil intentions, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander.

Matthew 5:32

But I say to you that anyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of unchastity, causes her to commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Matthew 7:21

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.

Mark 3:35

Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.”

John 4:34

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to complete his work.

John 7:17

Anyone who resolves to do the will of God will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own.

Acts 15:20

but we should write to them to abstain only from things polluted by idols and from fornication and from whatever has been strangled and from blood.

Acts 15:29

that you abstain from what has been sacrificed to idols and from blood and from what is strangled and from fornication. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.”

Acts 20:32

And now I commend you to God and to the message of his grace, a message that is able to build you up and to give you the inheritance among all who are sanctified.

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a place among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Romans 1:29

They were filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, covetousness, malice. Full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, craftiness, they are gossips,

Romans 12:2

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God—what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Romans 6:22

But now that you have been freed from sin and enslaved to God, the advantage you get is sanctification. The end is eternal life.

1 Corinthians 1:30

He is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption,

1 Corinthians 7:2

But because of cases of sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband.

2 Corinthians 12:21

I fear that when I come again, my God may humble me before you, and that I may have to mourn over many who previously sinned and have not repented of the impurity, sexual immorality, and licentiousness that they have practiced.

Galatians 5:19

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

Ephesians 5:17

So do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Ephesians 6:6

not only while being watched, and in order to please them, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart.

Colossians 1:9

For this reason, since the day we heard it, we have not ceased praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of God's will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Colossians 3:5

Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly: fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you. He is always wrestling in his prayers on your behalf, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in everything that God wills.

1 Thessalonians 4:2

For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 4:4

that each one of you know how to control your own body in holiness and honor,

1 Thessalonians 5:18

give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

May the God of peace himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Thessalonians 2:13

But we must always give thanks to God for you, brothers and sisters beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the first fruits for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the truth.

Titus 2:14

He it is who gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify for himself a people of his own who are zealous for good deeds.

Hebrews 10:36

For you need endurance, so that when you have done the will of God, you may receive what was promised.

Hebrews 12:16

See to it that no one becomes like Esau, an immoral and godless person, who sold his birthright for a single meal.

Hebrews 13:21

make you complete in everything good so that you may do his will, working among us that which is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honor by all, and let the marriage bed be kept undefiled; for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

1 Peter 1:2

who have been chosen and destined by God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit to be obedient to Jesus Christ and to be sprinkled with his blood: May grace and peace be yours in abundance.

1 Peter 4:2

so as to live for the rest of your earthly life no longer by human desires but by the will of God.

1 John 2:17

And the world and its desire are passing away, but those who do the will of God live forever.

Revelation 21:8

But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, the murderers, the fornicators, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur, which is the second death.”

Revelation 22:15

Outside are the dogs and sorcerers and fornicators and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.