1 Thessalonians 4:7

Bible in Basic English 1965

Because it is God's purpose that our way of life may be not unclean but holy.

Cross References

Leviticus 11:44

For I am the Lord your God: for this reason, make and keep yourselves holy, for I am holy; you are not to make yourselves unclean with any sort of thing which goes about flat on the earth.

Leviticus 19:2

Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.

Romans 1:7

To all those who are in Rome, loved by God, marked out as 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 in Corinth, to those who have been made holy in Christ Jesus, saints by the selection of God, with all those who in every place give honour to the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:

Galatians 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses,

Ephesians 1:4

Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:

Ephesians 2:10

For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.

Ephesians 4:1

I then, the prisoner in the Lord, make this request from my heart, that you will see that your behaviour is a credit to the position which God's purpose has given you,

Ephesians 4:19

Who having no more power of feeling, have given themselves up to evil passions, to do all unclean things with overmuch desire.

1 Thessalonians 2:3

For our witness does not come from error or from an unclean heart or from deceit:

2 Timothy 1:9

Who gave us salvation, marking us out for his purpose, not on account of our works, but in the measure of his purpose and his grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

Hebrews 12:14

Let your desire be for peace with all men, and to be made holy, without which no man may see the Lord;

2 Peter 2:10

But specially those who go after the unclean desires of the flesh, and make sport of authority. Ready to take chances, uncontrolled, they have no fear of saying evil of those in high places: