1 Thessalonians 4:3

James Moffatt - New Testament

It is God's will that you should be consecrated, that you abstain from sexual vice,

Cross References

1 Peter 4:2

nerve you to spend the rest of your time in the flesh for the will of God and no longer for human passions.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

May the God of peace consecrate you through and through! Spirit, soul, and body, may you be kept without break or blame till the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ!

Romans 12:2

Instead of being moulded to this world, have your mind renewed, and so be transformed in nature, able to make out what the will of God is, namely, what is good and acceptable to him and perfect.

Hebrews 13:4

Let marriage be held in honour by all, and keep the marriage-bed unstained. God will punish the vicious and adulterous.

Ephesians 5:17

So do not be senseless, but understand what is the Lord's will;

Colossians 3:5

So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),

1 Thessalonians 4:4

that each of you should learn to take a wife for himself chastely and honourably,

Galatians 5:19

Now the deeds of the flesh are quite obvious, such as sexual vice, impurity, sensuality,

1 John 2:17

and the world is passing away with its desire, while he who does the will of God remains for ever.

Matthew 7:21

It is not everyone who says to me 'Lord, Lord!', who will get into the Realm of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father in heaven.

Revelation 21:8

but as for the craven, the faithless, the abominable, as for murderers, the immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and liars of all kinds — their lot is the lake that blazes with fire and brimstone, which is the second death."

2 Thessalonians 2:13

Now we are bound always to thank God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God has chosen you as the first to be reaped for salvation, by the consecration of your spirit and by faith in the Truth;

Hebrews 10:36

Steady patience is what you need, so that after doing the will of God you may get what you have been promised.

Ephesians 6:6

instead of merely working when their eye is on you, like those who court human favour, do God's will from the heart like servants of Christ,

1 Corinthians 7:2

but there is so much immorality that every man had better have a wife of his own and every woman a husband of her own.

Acts 15:29

abstain from food that has been offered to idols, from tasting blood, from the flesh of animals that have been strangled, and from sexual vice. Keep clear of all this and you will prosper. Goodbye."

1 Thessalonians 5:18

thank God for everything — such is his will for you in Christ Jesus;

Mark 3:35

Whoever does the will of God, that is my brother and sister and mother."

1 Peter 1:2

whom God the Father has predestined and chosen, by the consecration of the Spirit, to obey Jesus Christ and be sprinkled with his blood: may grace and peace be multiplied to you.

Hebrews 13:21

furnish you with everything for the doing of his will, creating in your lives by Jesus Christ what is acceptable in his own sight! To him be glory for ever and ever: Amen.

Titus 2:14

who gave himself up for us to redeem us from all iniquity and secure himself a clean people with a zest for good works.

Colossians 1:9

Hence, from the day we heard of it, we have never ceased to pray for you, asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and insight,

2 Corinthians 12:21

afraid that when I come back to you, my God may humiliate me before you, and I may have to mourn for many who sinned some time ago and yet have never repented of the impurity, the sexual vice, and the sensuality which they have practised.

1 Corinthians 1:30

This is the God to whom you owe your being in Christ Jesus, whom God has made our 'Wisdom,' that is, our righteousness and consecration and redemption;

Acts 26:18

that their eyes may be opened and that they may turn from darkness to light, from the power of Satan to God, to get remission of their sins and an inheritance among those who are consecrated by faith in me.'

John 4:34

Jesus said, "My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to accomplish his work.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil designs, murder, adultery, sexual vice, stealing, false witness, and slander.

Matthew 12:50

Whoever does the will of my Father in heaven, that is my brother and sister and mother."

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, salutes you — a servant of Christ Jesus who is always earnest in prayer for you, that you may stand firm like mature and convinced Christians, whatever be the will of God for you.

Romans 6:22

but now that you are set free from sin, now that you have passed into the service of God, your gain is consecration, and the end of that is life eternal.

Acts 20:32

And now I entrust you to God and the word of his grace; he is able to upbuild you and give you your inheritance among all the consecrated.

Acts 15:20

but write them injunctions to abstain from whatever is contaminated by idols, from sexual vice, from the flesh of animals that have been strangled, and from tasting blood;

John 7:17

anyone who chooses to do his will, shall understand whether my teaching comes from God or whether I am talking on my own authority.

Hebrews 12:16

that no one turns to sexual vice or to a profane life as Esau did — Esau, who for a single meal parted with his birthright.

Romans 1:29

till they are filled with all manner of wickedness, depravity, lust, and viciousness, filled to the brim with envy, murder, quarrels, intrigues, and malignity — slanderers,

Revelation 22:15

Begone, you dogs, you sorcerers, you vicious men, you murderers, you idolaters, you who love and practise falsehood, everyone of you!"

Matthew 5:32

But I tell you, anyone who divorces his wife for any reason except unchastity makes her an adulteress; and whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

1 Thessalonians 4:2

You remember the instructions we gave you on the authority of the Lord Jesus.