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1 Thessalonians 4:3
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Plea for Purity

1 Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus athat you should abound more and more, bjust as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God;  
2 for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
3 For this is athe will of God, byour sanctification: cthat you should abstain from sexual immorality;  
4 athat each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,  
5 anot in passion of lust, blike the Gentiles cwho do not know God;  
6 that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord ais the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified.  
7 For God did not call us to uncleanness, abut in holiness.  
8 aTherefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, bwho has also given us His Holy Spirit.  

A Brotherly and Orderly Life

9 But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for ayou yourselves are taught by God bto love one another;  
10 and indeed you do so toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, athat you increase more and more;  
Verse Comparison: 1 Thessalonians 4:3

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American Standard Version
For this is the will of God, `even' your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;

Amplified® Bible
For this is the will of God, that you should be consecrated (separated and set apart for pure and holy living): that you should abstain {and} shrink from all sexual vice,

Contemporary English Version
God wants you to be holy, so don't be immoral in matters of sex.

Darby English Version
For this is [the] will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;

Good News Bible
God wants you to be holy and completely free from sexual immorality.

International Standard Version
For it is God's will that you be sanctified: You must abstain from sexual immorality;

King James Version
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

New American Standard Bible
For this is the will of God, your sanctification; {that is,} that you abstain from sexual immorality;

New International Version
It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;

New King James Version
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality;

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
For God wills, your sanctification; namely, that you abstain from sexual immorality;

Young's Literal Translation
for this is the will of God -- your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,


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