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1 Thessalonians 4:4

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour:

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But if they do not contain themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to be burnt.

I BESEECH you therefore, brethren, by the mercy of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing unto God, your reasonable service.

Ye husbands, likewise dwelling with them according to knowledge, giving honour to the female as to the weaker vessel, and as to the co-heirs of the grace of life: that your prayers be not hindered.

Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline, think on these things.

I speak an human thing, because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as you have yielded your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity, unto iniquity; so now yield your members to serve justice, unto sanctification.

Wherefore God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto uncleanness, to dishonour their own bodies among themselves.

And the Lord said to him: Go thy way; for this man is to me a vessel of election, to carry my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel.

But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency may be of the power of God, and not of us.

And David answered the priest, and said to him: Truly, as to what concerneth women, we have refrained ourselves from yesterday and the day before, when we came out, and the vessels of the young men were holy. Now this way is defiled: but it shall also be sanctified this day in the vessels.




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