1 Thessalonians 4:3
For this is God's will--your purity of life, that you abstain from fornication;
Weymouth NT (1912)
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 the commands which we laid upon you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.
4that each man among you shall know how to procure a wife who shall be his own in purity and honour;
Cross References
Matthew 12:50To obey my Father who is in Heaven--that is to be my brother and my sister and my mother."
Mark 3:35"Here are my mother and my brothers. For wherever there is one who has been obedient to God, there is my brother--my sister--and my mother."
John 7:17If any one is willing to do His will, he shall know about the teaching, whether it is from God or originates with me.
Acts 15:20Yet let us send them written instructions to abstain from things polluted by connexion with idolatry, 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 →