1 Thessalonians 4:7

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Cross References

Leviticus 11:44

For I am the Lord your God. Be holy, for I am Holy. Do not pollute your souls with any creeping thing, which moves across the land.

Leviticus 19:2

Speak to the entire assembly of the sons of Israel, and you shall say to them: Be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.

Romans 1:7

To all who are at Rome, the beloved of God, called as saints. Grace to you, and peace, from God our Father and from 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 with all who are invoking the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place of theirs and of ours.

Galatians 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are manifest; they are: fornication, lust, homosexuality, self-indulgence,

Ephesians 1:4

just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, so that we would be holy and immaculate in his sight, in charity.

Ephesians 2:10

For we are his handiwork, created in Christ Jesus for the good works which God has prepared and in which we should walk.

Ephesians 4:1

And so, as a prisoner in the Lord, I beg you to walk in a manner worthy of the vocation to which you have been called:

Ephesians 4:19

Such as these, despairing, have given themselves over to sexual immorality, carrying out every impurity with rapacity.

1 Thessalonians 2:3

For our exhortation was not in error, nor from impurity, nor with deception.

2 Timothy 1:9

who has freed us and has called us to his holy vocation, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus, before the ages of time.

Hebrews 12:14

Pursue peace with everyone. Pursue sanctity, without which no one shall see God.

2 Peter 2:10

even more so, those who walk after the flesh in unclean desires, and who despise proper authority. Boldly pleasing themselves, they do not dread to introduce divisions by blaspheming;