1 Thessalonians 4:3,7-8
1 Thessalonians 4:1-3 The Message (MSG)
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.
1 Thessalonians 4:6-7-8 The Message (MSG)
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. If you disregard this advice, you’re not offending your neighbors; you’re rejecting God, who is making you a gift of his Holy Spirit.
1 Thessalonians 4:3 King James Version (KJV)
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication
1 Thessalonians 4:7-8 King James Version (KJV)
For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
1 Thessalonians 4:3 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality
1 Thessalonians 4:7-8 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but in sanctification. So, he who rejects this is not rejecting man but the God who gives His Holy Spirit to you.
1 Thessalonians 4:3 New Century Version (NCV)
God wants you to be holy and to stay away from sexual sins.
1 Thessalonians 4:7-8 New Century Version (NCV)
God called us to be holy and does not want us to live in sin. So the person who refuses to obey this teaching is disobeying God, not simply a human teaching. And God is the One who gives us his Holy Spirit.
1 Thessalonians 4:3 American Standard Version (ASV)
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication
1 Thessalonians 4:7-8 American Standard Version (ASV)
For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification. Therefore he that rejecteth, rejecteth not man, but God, who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you.
1 Thessalonians 4:3 New International Version (NIV)
It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality
1 Thessalonians 4:7-8 New International Version (NIV)
For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life. Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject a human being but God, the very God who gives you his Holy Spirit.
1 Thessalonians 4:3 New King James Version (NKJV)
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality
I Thessalonians 4:7-8 New King James Version (NKJV)
For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness. Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit.
1 Thessalonians 4:3 Amplified Bible (AMP)
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
1 Thessalonians 4:7-8 Amplified Bible (AMP)
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]. So whoever rejects and disregards this is not [merely] rejecting man but the God who gives His Holy Spirit to you [to dwell in you and empower you to overcome temptation].
1 Thessalonians 4:3 New Living Translation (NLT)
God’s will is for you to be holy, so stay away from all sexual sin.
1 Thessalonians 4:7-8 New Living Translation (NLT)
God has called us to live holy lives, not impure lives. Therefore, anyone who refuses to live by these rules is not disobeying human teaching but is rejecting God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
1 Thessalonians 4:3 The Passion Translation (TPT)
God’s will is for you to be set apart for him in holiness and that you keep yourselves unpolluted from sexual defilement.
1 Thessalonians 4:7-8 The Passion Translation (TPT)
For God’s call on our lives is not to a life of compromise and perversion but to a life surrounded in holiness. Therefore, whoever rejects this instruction isn’t rejecting human authority but God himself, who gives us his precious gift—his Spirit of holiness.