If a man sleeps with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them are to bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.
1 Thessalonians 4:3 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised For this is God’s will, your sanctification: that you keep away from sexual immorality, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For this is the will of God, that you should be consecrated (separated and set apart for pure and holy living): that you should abstain and shrink from all sexual vice, American Standard Version (1901) For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication; Common English Bible God’s will is that your lives are dedicated to him. This means that you stay away from sexual immorality Catholic Public Domain Version For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from fornication, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that you should abstain from fornication; |
If a man sleeps with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them are to bathe with water, and they will remain unclean until evening.
For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.’
For from the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, slander.
But I tell you, everyone who divorces his wife, except in a case of sexual immorality, causes her to commit adultery. And whoever marries a divorced woman commits adultery.
‘Not everyone who says to me, “Lord, Lord,” will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.
‘My food is to do the will of him who sent me and to finish his work,’ Jesus told them.
If anyone wants to do his will, he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own.
but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from blood.
that you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from sexual immorality. You will do well if you keep yourselves from these things. Farewell.’
‘And now I commit 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.
to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.”
They are filled with all unrighteousness, evil, greed, and wickedness. They are full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,
Do not be conformed to this age, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may discern what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
But now, since you have been set free from sin and have become enslaved to God, you have your fruit, which results in sanctification #– #and the outcome is eternal life!
It is from him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became wisdom from God for us #– #our righteousness, sanctification, and redemption #– #
But because sexual immorality is so common, , each man should have sexual relations with his own wife, and each woman should have sexual relations with her own husband.
I fear that when I come my God will again humiliate me in your presence, and I will grieve for many who sinned before and have not repented of the moral impurity, sexual immorality, and sensuality they practised.
Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, moral impurity, promiscuity,
Don’t work only while being watched, as people-pleasers, but as slaves of Christ, doing God’s will from your heart.
For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,
Therefore, put to death what belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you greetings. He is always wrestling for you in his prayers, so that you can stand mature and fully assured in everything God wills.
that each of you knows how to control his own body in holiness and honour,
give thanks in everything; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. And may your whole spirit, soul, and body be kept sound and blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because from the beginning God has chosen you for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and through belief in the truth.
He gave himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to cleanse for himself a people for his own possession, eager to do good works.
For you need endurance, so that after you have done God’s will, you may receive what was promised.
And make sure that there isn’t any immoral or irreverent person like Esau, who sold his birthright in exchange for a single meal.
equip you with everything good to do his will, working in us what is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory for ever and ever. , Amen.
Marriage is to be honoured by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the sanctifying work of the Spirit, to be obedient and to be sprinkled with the blood of Jesus Christ. May grace and peace be multiplied to you.
in order to live the remaining time in the flesh no longer for human desires, but for God’s will.
And the world with its lust is passing away, but the one who does the will of God remains for ever.
But the cowards, faithless, detestable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars #– #their share will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death.’
Outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practises falsehood.