1 Thessalonians 4:6

No one should wrong or exploit a fellow believer in sexual matters, for the Lord judges such sins. Purity protects others, and God avenges its violation.

Cross-references · 40

• Heb 13:4Marriage should be honored by all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
• Exod 20:17You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, or his manservant or maidservant, or his ox or donkey, or anything that belongs to your neighbor.”
• Rom 12:19Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but leave room for God’s wrath. For it is written: “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, says the Lord.”
• Exod 20:15You shall not steal.
• Rom 1:18The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness.
• Prov 28:24He who robs his father or mother, saying, “It is not wrong,” is a companion to the man who destroys.
• Rom 13:4For he is God’s servant for your good. But if you do wrong, be afraid, for he does not carry the sword in vain. He is God’s servant, an agent of retribution to the wrongdoer.
• Luke 12:5But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear the One who, after you have been killed, has authority to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear Him!
• Jas 2:6But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court?
• Ezek 22:13Now look, I strike My hands together against your unjust gain and against the blood you have shed in your midst.
• Deut 32:35Vengeance is Mine; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; for their day of disaster is near, and their doom is coming quickly.”
• Mal 3:5“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
• Gal 5:21and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
• Jas 5:4Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
• Lev 19:11You must not steal. You must not lie or deceive one another.
• Jer 7:6if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,
• Lev 25:14If you make a sale to your neighbor or a purchase from him, you must not take advantage of each other.
• Prov 11:1Dishonest scales are an abomination to the LORD, but an accurate weight is His delight.
• Jer 9:4“Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.
• Isa 5:7For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard a cry of distress.
• Amos 8:5–6asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.
• 2 Th 1:8in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
• Prov 20:14“Worthless, worthless!” says the buyer, but on the way out, he gloats.
• Ps 140:12I know that the LORD upholds justice for the poor and defends the cause of the needy.
• Deut 24:7If a man is caught kidnapping one of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. So you must purge the evil from among you.
• Eph 5:6Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of such things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
• Job 31:13–14If I have rejected the cause of my manservant or maidservant when they made a complaint against me,
• 1 Sam 12:3–4Here I am. Bear witness against me before the LORD and before His anointed: Whose ox or donkey have I taken? Whom have I cheated or oppressed? From whose hand have I accepted a bribe and closed my eyes? Tell me, and I will restore it to you.”
• Ezek 45:9–14For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Enough, O princes of Israel! Cease your violence and oppression, and do what is just and right. Stop dispossessing My people, declares the Lord GOD.’
• Prov 22:22–23Do not rob a poor man because he is poor, and do not crush the afflicted at the gate,
• Mark 10:19You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not cheat others, honor your father and mother.’”
• Zeph 3:5The LORD within her is righteous; He does no wrong. He applies His justice morning by morning; He does not fail at dawn, yet the unjust know no shame.
• Zeph 3:1Woe to the city of oppressors, rebellious and defiled!
• Prov 20:23Unequal weights are detestable to the LORD, and dishonest scales are no good.
• Ps 94:1O LORD, God of vengeance, O God of vengeance, shine forth.
• Lev 25:17Do not take advantage of each other, but fear your God; for I am the LORD your God.
• Eph 4:17So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
• Lev 19:13You must not defraud your neighbor or rob him. You must not withhold until morning the wages due a hired hand.
• Eccl 5:8If you see the oppression of the poor and the denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be astonished at the matter; for one official is watched by a superior, and others higher still are over them.
• 1 Cor 6:7–9The very fact that you have lawsuits among you means that you are thoroughly defeated already. Why not rather be wronged? Why not rather be cheated?

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