1 Thessalonians 4:3

English Majority Text Version

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from fornication,

Cross References

Matthew 12:50

For whoever does the will of My Father 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, blasphemies.

Matthew 5:32

"But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for a matter of sexual immorality, makes her commit adultery; and whoever marries a divorcee commits adultery.

Matthew 7:21

"Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven.

Mark 3:35

For whoever does the will of God is My brother and My sister and mother."

John 4:34

Jesus said to them, "My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work.

John 7:17

If anyone desires to do His will, he will know about the doctrine, whether it is from God, or whether I am speaking on My own authority.

Acts 15:20

but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from blood.

Acts 15:29

that you abstain from meat offered to idols, and from blood, and from anything strangled, and from fornication; from which keeping yourselves back, you will do well. Farewell.

Acts 20:32

So for the present, I entrust you, brothers, to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who have been sanctified.

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes, in order to turn them from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, in order for them to receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.'

Romans 1:29

having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, maliciousness; they are whisperers,

Romans 12:2

And do not fashion yourselves after this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and well pleasing and perfect will of God.

Romans 6:22

But now having been freed from sin, and having become enslaved to God, you have your fruit resulting in sanctification, and the outcome, eternal life.

1 Corinthians 1:30

But from Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption;

1 Corinthians 7:2

Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, 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 will humble me before you, and I will mourn for many who have previously sinned and have not repented for the impurity and fornication and lewdness which they practiced.

Galatians 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are: adultery, fornication, immorality, lewdness,

Ephesians 5:17

Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Ephesians 6:6

not with eyeservice, as men-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God wholeheartedly,

Colossians 1:9

On account of this we also, since the day we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that you may be filled with the full knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

Colossians 3:5

Therefore put to death your members on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras greets you, who is one of you, a bondservant of Christ, always struggling for you in his prayers, that you may stand mature and complete in all the will of God.

1 Thessalonians 4:2

For you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

1 Thessalonians 4:4

that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

1 Thessalonians 5:18

In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Thessalonians 2:13

But we are obligated to give thanks to God always for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation, through sanctification of the Spirit and belief in the truth,

Titus 2:14

who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself a people as His own possession, zealous for good works.

Hebrews 10:36

For you have need of endurance, so that having done the will of God, you may receive the promise:

Hebrews 12:16

lest there be any fornicator or profane person like Esau, who in exchange for one meal gave up his birthright.

Hebrews 13:21

make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you what is well pleasing before Him, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is honorable among all, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

1 Peter 1:2

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

1 Peter 4:2

that he no longer should live the remaining time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

1 John 2:17

And the world is passing away, and its lust; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

Revelation 21:8

But the cowardly, and unbelieving, and sinners, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and drug users, and idolaters, and all who are false shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."

Revelation 22:15

But outside are dogs and drug users and fornicators and murderers and idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices a lie.