1 Thessalonians 4:3
For this is God’s will, even your sanctification; that you should abstain from sexual vice.
Montgomery New Testament
In The King James Version
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
In Context
2For you know what charges I laid upon you through the Lord Jesus.
4That each one should learn how to take a wife in purity and honor.
Cross References
Matthew 12:50"Behold my mother and my brothers! For whoever does the will of my Father in heaven, is my brother and sister and mother."
Mark 3:35"Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does the will of God, that one is my brother and sister and mother."
John 7:17"If any one wills to do God’s will he shall know concerning my teaching, whether it is from God, or I speak my own authority. "Dedicate them in thy truth; thy word is truth.
Acts 15:20"but that we should write to them to abstain from the pollution of idols and from fornication, from meat killed by strangling, and from blood.
Matthew Henry on 1 Thessalonians 4:2-9
Exhortations to Holiness; Caution against Impurity. ( a. d. 51.) 1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more. 2 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. 3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: 4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; 5 Not in the lust… Read the whole commentary →