1 Thessalonians 4:7 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁷ For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ For God has not called us to impurity but to consecration [to dedicate ourselves to the most thorough purity].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

Common English Bible

⁷ God didn’t call us to be immoral but to be dedicated to him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ For God has not called us to impurity, but to sanctification.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ 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; sanctify yourselves, therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming creature that moves on the earth.

Leviticus 19:2

“Speak to all the congregation of the Israelites and say to them: 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 that is in Corinth, to those who are 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 obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery,

Ephesians 1:4

just as he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless before him in love.

Ephesians 2:10

For we are what he has made us, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we may walk in them.

Ephesians 4:1

I, therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,

Ephesians 4:19

They have lost all sensitivity and have abandoned themselves to licentiousness, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.

1 Thessalonians 2:3

For our appeal does not spring from deceit or impure motives or trickery,

2 Timothy 1:9

who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works but according to his own purpose and grace, and this grace was given to us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,

Hebrews 12:14

Pursue peace with everyone and the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.

2 Peter 2:10

—especially those who indulge their flesh in depraved lust and who despise authority. Bold and willful, they are not afraid to slander the glorious ones,