For I am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground.
1 Thessalonians 4:7 - English Standard Version 2016 For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness. 更多版本King James Version (Oxford) 1769 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For God has not called us to impurity but to consecration [to dedicate ourselves to the most thorough purity]. American Standard Version (1901) For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification. Common English Bible God didn’t call us to be immoral but to be dedicated to him. Catholic Public Domain Version For God has not called us to impurity, but to sanctification. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto sanctification. |
For I am the Lord your God. Consecrate yourselves therefore, and be holy, for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any swarming thing that crawls on the ground.
“Speak to all the congregation of the people of Israel and say to them, You shall be holy, for I the Lord your God am holy.
To all those in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
To the church of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints together with all those who in every place call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, both their Lord and ours:
even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called,
They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.
who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of his own purpose and grace, which he gave us in Christ Jesus before the ages began,
Strive for peace with everyone, and for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
and especially those who indulge in the lust of defiling passion and despise authority. Bold and willful, they do not tremble as they blaspheme the glorious ones,