1 Thessalonians 4:3

Modern English Version

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

Cross References

1 Peter 4:2

so that he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh serving human desires, but the will of God.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

May the very God of peace sanctify you completely. And I pray to God that your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 12:2

Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and complete will of God.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is to be honored among everyone, and the bed undefiled. But God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

Ephesians 5:17

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

Colossians 3:5

Therefore put to death the parts of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

1 Thessalonians 4:4

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

Galatians 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are revealed, which are these: adultery, sexual immorality, impurity, lewdness,

1 John 2:17

The world and its desires are passing away, but the one who does the will of God lives forever.

Matthew 7:21

“Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven.

Revelation 21:8

But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the abominable, the murderers, the sexually immoral, the sorcerers, the idolaters, and all liars shall have their portion in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone. This is the second death.”

2 Thessalonians 2:13

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

Hebrews 10:36

For you need patience, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive the promise.

Ephesians 6:6

not serving when eyes are on you as pleasing men, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

1 Corinthians 7:2

Nevertheless, because of sexual immorality, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

Acts 15:29

Abstain from food offered to idols, from sexual immorality, from strangled animals, and from blood. If you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. Farewell.

Psalm 143:10

Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God; Your Spirit is good. Lead me in the land of uprightness.

Psalm 40:8

I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”

1 Thessalonians 5:18

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

Mark 3:35

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

1 Peter 1:2

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

Hebrews 13:21

make you complete in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Titus 2:14

who gave Himself for us, that He might redeem us from all lawlessness and purify for Himself a special people, zealous of good works.

Colossians 1:9

For this reason we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you and to ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;

2 Corinthians 12:21

And I fear that when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall mourn for many who have sinned already, who have not repented of impurity, sexual immorality, and lasciviousness which they have committed.

1 Corinthians 1:30

But because of Him you are in Christ Jesus, whom God made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in Me.’

John 4:34

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

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immorality, thefts, false witness, and blasphemies.

Matthew 12:50

For whoever does the will of My Father who is in heaven is My brother, and sister, and mother.”

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras greets you. He is one of you, a servant of Christ, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand mature and complete in the entire will of God.

Romans 6:22

But now, having been freed from sin and having become slaves of God, you have fruit unto holiness, and the end is eternal life.

Acts 20:32

“Now, brothers, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all who are sanctified.

Acts 15:20

but that we write to them to abstain from food offered to idols, from sexual immorality, from strangled animals, and from blood.

John 7:17

If any man desires to do His will, he shall know whether the teaching is from God or whether I speak on My own authority.

Hebrews 12:16

lest there be any sexually immoral or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.

Romans 1:29

They were filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and craftiness. They are gossips,

Revelation 22:15

Outside are dogs and sorcerers and the sexually immoral and murderers and idolaters and everyone who loves and practices a lie.

Matthew 5:32

But I say to you that whoever divorces his wife, except for sexual unfaithfulness, causes her to commit adultery. And whoever marries her who is divorced commits adultery.

1 Thessalonians 4:2

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

Leviticus 15:18

If a man lies with a woman, and there is an emission of semen, they shall both bathe themselves in water and be unclean until the evening.