1 Thessalonians 4:7

Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

Cross References

Leviticus 11:44

For I am the LORD your God: sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that moveth upon the earth.

Leviticus 19:2

Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy.

Romans 1:7

To all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 1:2

unto the church of God which is at Corinth, even them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints, with all that call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, their Lord and ours:

Galatians 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Ephesians 1:4

even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:

Ephesians 2:10

For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.

Ephesians 4:1

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called,

Ephesians 4:19

who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

1 Thessalonians 2:3

For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:

2 Timothy 1:9

who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

Hebrews 12:14

Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:

2 Peter 2:10

but chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise dominion. Daring, selfwilled, they tremble not to rail at dignities: