1 Thessalonians 4:7

God called us to holiness, not to impurity. The very purpose of our calling is a clean life.

Cross-references · 18

• Lev 11:44For I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any creature that crawls along the ground.
• 1 Pet 2:9–12But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light.
• Eph 1:4For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love
• 1 Pet 1:14–16As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance.
• Rom 8:29–30For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers.
• Lev 19:2“Speak to the whole congregation of Israel and tell them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.
• 1 Pet 2:21–22For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps:
• 2 Tim 1:9He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.
• 2 Pet 2:10Such punishment is specially reserved for those who indulge the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and self-willed, they are unafraid to slander glorious beings.
• Gal 5:19The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;
• 2 Th 2:13–14But 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.
• Heb 12:14Pursue peace with everyone, as well as holiness, without which no one will see the Lord.
• 1 Th 2:3For our appeal does not arise from deceit or ulterior motives or trickery.
• Eph 4:1As a prisoner in the Lord, then, I urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling you have received:
• Eph 2:10For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance as our way of life.
• Eph 4:19Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.
• Rom 1:7To all in Rome who are loved by God and called to be saints: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
• 1 Cor 1:2To the church of God in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus and called to be holy, together with all those everywhere who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours:

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