1 Thessalonians 4:3

God's will is your sanctification, beginning with abstaining from sexual immorality. Holiness in sexual conduct is central to a life set apart for God.

Cross-references · 40

• 1 Pet 4:2Consequently, he does not live out his remaining time on earth for human passions, but for the will of God.
• Rom 12:2Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what is the good, pleasing, and perfect will of God.
• 1 Th 5:23Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your entire spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Heb 13:4Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
• Eph 5:17Therefore do not be foolish, but understand what the Lord’s will is.
• Col 3:5Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
• Eph 5:3–5But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed.
• 1 Th 4:4each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,
• Gal 5:19The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
• 1 Jn 2:17The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.
• Matt 7:21Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but only he who does the will of My Father in heaven.
• Rev 21:8But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”
• 2 Th 2:13But we should always thank God for you, brothers who are loved by the Lord, because God has chosen you from the beginning to be saved by the sanctification of the Spirit and by faith in the truth.
• John 17:17–19Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.
• Eph 5:26–27to sanctify her, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word,
• 1 Cor 6:9–11Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts,
• 1 Cor 6:13–18“Food for the stomach and the stomach for food,” but God will destroy them both. The body is not intended for sexual immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
• Heb 10:36You need to persevere, so that after you have done the will of God, you will receive what He has promised.
• 1 Cor 7:2But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman her own husband.
• Acts 15:29You must abstain from food sacrificed to idols, from blood, from the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. You will do well to avoid these things. Farewell.
• Eph 6:6And do this not only to please them while they are watching, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from your heart.
• Ps 143:10Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God. May Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.
• Ps 40:8I delight to do Your will, O my God; Your law is within my heart.”
• 1 Th 5:18Give thanks in every circumstance, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
• Mark 3:35For whoever does the will of God is My brother and sister and mother.”
• Matt 12:50For whoever does the will of My Father in heaven is My brother and sister and mother.”
• 1 Pet 1:2according to the foreknowledge of God the Father and sanctified by the Spirit for obedience to Jesus Christ and sprinkling by His blood: Grace and peace be yours in abundance.
• 2 Cor 12:21I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.
• 1 Cor 5:9–11I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people.
• Matt 15:19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.
• Heb 13:21equip you with every good thing to do His will. And may He accomplish in us what is pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
• John 4:34Jesus explained, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.
• Acts 26:18to 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 an inheritance among those sanctified by faith in Me.’
• Col 1:9For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,
• Titus 2:14He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify for Himself a people for His own possession, zealous for good deeds.
• 1 Cor 1:30It is because of Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God: our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.
• Acts 15:20Instead, we should write and tell them to abstain from food polluted by idols, from sexual immorality, from the meat of strangled animals, and from blood.
• Col 4:12Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you greetings. He is always wrestling in prayer for you, so that you may stand mature and fully assured in the full will of God.
• Heb 12:16See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.
• Rom 1:29They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed, and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, and malice. They are gossips,

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