1 Thessalonians 4:3,7 - Compare All Versions

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It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality

For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality

For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness.

God’s will is for you to be holy, so stay away from all sexual sin.

God has called us to live holy lives, not impure lives.

For this is God’s will,  your sanctification:  that you keep away  from sexual immorality

For God has not called us to impurity  but to live in holiness.

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

For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality

For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness.

One final word, friends. We ask you—urge is more like it—that you keep on doing what we told you to do to please God, not in a dogged religious plod, but in a living, spirited dance. You know the guidelines we laid out for you from the Master Jesus. God wants you to live a pure life. Keep yourselves from sexual promiscuity.

Don’t run roughshod over the concerns of your brothers and sisters. Their concerns are God’s concerns, and he will take care of them. We’ve warned you about this before. God hasn’t invited us into a disorderly, grungy life but into something holy and beautiful—as beautiful on the inside as the outside.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality

For God has not called us for impurity, but in sanctification.

For this is the will of God, that you be sanctified [separated and set apart from sin]: that you abstain and back away from sexual immorality

For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness [to be dedicated, and set apart by behavior that pleases Him, whether in public or in private].

For this is God’s will: that you become holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality

For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.