1 Thessalonians 4:7 - Easy To Read Version

⁷ God called us to be holy. He does not want us to live in sin.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ For God has not called us to impurity but to consecration [to dedicate ourselves to the most thorough purity].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

Common English Bible

⁷ God didn’t call us to be immoral but to be dedicated to him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ For God has not called us to impurity, but to sanctification.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto sanctification.

1 Thessalonians 4:7 Tagairtí Cros

Leviticus 11:44

Why? Because I am the Lord your God! I am holy, so you should keep yourselves holy! Don’t make yourselves unclean with those crawling things!

Leviticus 19:2

“Tell all the people of Israel: I am the Lord your God! I am holy, so you must be holy!

Romans 1:7

This letter is to all of you in Rome that God has called to be his holy people. {\cf2\super [8]} You are people that God loves.

1 Corinthians 1:2

To the church of God in Corinth, to those people that have been made holy {\cf2\super [2]} in Christ Jesus. You were called to be God’s holy people. You were called with all the people everywhere that trust in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ—their Lord and ours:

Galatians 5:19

The wrong things our sinful self does are clear: doing sexual sins, not being pure, doing morally bad things,

Ephesians 1:4

In Christ, God chose us before the world was made. God chose us in love to be his holy people {\cf2\super [4]} —people with no wrong in us before him.

Ephesians 2:10

God has made us what we are. In Christ Jesus, God made us new people so that we would do good things. God had already planned those good things for us. God had planned for us to live our lives doing those good things.

Ephesians 4:1

I am in prison because I belong to the Lord. And God chose you to be his people. I tell you now to live the way God’s people should live.

Ephesians 4:19

They have lost their feeling of shame. And they use their lives doing things that are morally wrong. More and more they want to do all kinds of evil.

1 Thessalonians 2:3

We encourage (teach) people. No person has fooled us. We are not evil. We are not trying to trick people. Those are not our reasons for doing what we do.

2 Timothy 1:9

God saved us and made us his holy people. {\cf2\super [6]} That happened not because of anything we did ourselves. No! God saved us and made us his people because that was what he wanted and because of his grace (kindness). That grace was given to us through Christ Jesus before time began.

Hebrews 12:14

Try to live in peace with all people. And try to live lives free from sin. If a person’s life is not holy, {\cf2\super [160]} then he will never see the Lord.

2 Peter 2:10

That punishment is for those people who live by doing the bad things their sinful selves want, and it is for people who hate the Lord’s authority (power).