1 Thessalonians 4:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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 thy will; for thou art my God: Thy spirit is good; lead me in the land of uprightness.

Psalm 40:8

I delight to do thy will, O my God; Yea, thy law is within my heart.

Leviticus 15:18

The woman also with whom a man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.

Matthew 12:50

For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, he is my brother, and sister, and mother.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings:

Matthew 5:32

but I say unto you, that every one that putteth away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, maketh her an adulteress: and whosoever shall marry her when she is put away committeth adultery.

Matthew 7:21

Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

Mark 3:35

For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

John 4:34

Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work.

John 7:17

If any man willeth to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it be of God, or whether I speak from myself.

Acts 15:20

but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

Acts 15:29

that ye abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, it shall be well with you. Fare ye well.

Acts 20:32

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

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me.

Romans 1:29

being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; whisperers,

Romans 12:2

And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Romans 6:22

But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life.

1 Corinthians 1:30

But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who was made unto us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

1 Corinthians 7:2

But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

2 Corinthians 12:21

lest, when I come again, my God should humble me before you, and I should mourn for many of them that have sinned heretofore, and repented not of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they committed.

Galatians 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Ephesians 5:17

Wherefore be ye not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Ephesians 6:6

not in the way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

Colossians 1:9

For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray and make request for you, that ye may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Colossians 3:5

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, the which is idolatry;

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, saluteth you, always striving for you in his prayers, that ye may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.

1 Thessalonians 4:2

For ye know what charge we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 4:4

that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honour,

1 Thessalonians 5:18

in everything give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus to you-ward.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Thessalonians 2:13

But we are bound to give thanks to God alway for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, for that God chose you from the beginning unto salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:

Titus 2:14

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a people for his own possession, zealous of good works.

Hebrews 10:36

For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.

Hebrews 12:16

lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright.

Hebrews 13:21

make you perfect in every good thing to do his will, working in us that which is well-pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be had in honour among all, and let the bed be undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

1 Peter 1:2

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied.

1 Peter 4:2

that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

1 John 2:17

And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.

Revelation 21:8

But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.

Revelation 22:15

Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.