1 Thessalonians 4:3

Appeal For Continuing Sanctification

² For you know what promises we gave unto you through our Lord Jesus. ³ For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you abstain from fornication; ⁴ that each one of you know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor,

Abstain from

Be Holy

Desires of the Flesh

Of the Flesh

Purpose of God

Set Apart

Sexual Immorality

Will of God

Sin

Ephesians 5:17

Therefore be not unwise, but understand whatsoever is the will of the Lord.

Ephesians 5:3-5

But all fornication, and uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be named among you, as it becomes saints;

Ephesians 6:6

not with eyeservice, as menpleasers, but as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the soul;

Colossians 1:9

Therefore we, from the day on which we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that you may be filled with the perfect knowledge of his will in all wisdom, and spiritual understanding,

Colossians 3:5

Therefore kill your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

1 Thessalonians 4:4

that each one of you know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor,

1 Thessalonians 5:23

And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless, in the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Thessalonians 2:13

But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning unto salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth;

1 Peter 4:2

that he may no longer live the remaining time in carnality according to the lusts of men, but in the will of God.

John 17:17-19

Sanctify them through the truth: thy word is truth.

Acts 15:29

to abstain from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which keeping yourselves, you will do well. Fare ye well.

Romans 6:22

But now having been made free from sin, and having become servants unto God, you have your fruit unto sanctification, and the end eternal life.

1 Corinthians 1:30

But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God was made unto us wisdom, and righteousness and sanctification, and redemption:

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras, who is from you, the servant of Jesus Christ, always agonizing in your behalf in his prayers, in order that you may stand perfect even having been fully carried away in all the will of God, salutes you.

1 Peter 1:2

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Grace to you, and peace, be multiplied.

Matthew 7:21

Not every one saying to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens; but he that doeth the will of my Father who is in the heavens.

Matthew 12:50

For whosoever may do the will of my Father who is in the heavens, the same is my brother, and my sister, and my mother.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart proceed evil reasonings, murders, fornications, adulteries, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.

Mark 3:35

For whosoever may do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and my mother.

John 4:34

Jesus says to them, My food is that I may do the will of Him that sent me, and finish His work.

John 7:17

if any one may will to do His will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God, or I speak for myself.

Acts 15:20

but to command them to abstain from things offered to idols, and from fornication, and from strangulation, and from blood.

Acts 20:32

And now I commend you to God and the word of His grace, who is able to edify you, and give you an inheritance among all the sanctified.

Acts 26:18

to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness unto light, and from the power of Satan unto God, in order that they may receive remission of sins, and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.

Romans 1:29

being filled with all injustice, wickedness, vice, covetousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceitfulness, evil affection;

Romans 12:2

and he not fashioned after this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

1 Corinthians 5:9-11

I have written unto you in a letter to have no fellowship with fornicators;

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? He not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor Sodomites,

1 Corinthians 6:13-18

Meats for the stomach, and the stomach for meats: but God will destroy both this and them. The body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

1 Corinthians 7:2

but on account of fornication, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

2 Corinthians 12:21

lest, I again having come, my God will humble me before you, and I will mourn over many of those having previously committed sins, and not having repented over the uncleanness and the fornication and debauchery which they have done.

Galatians 5:19

But the works of carnality are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, debauchery,

Ephesians 5:26-27

in order that he might sanctify her, having purified her by the washing of water through the word,

1 Thessalonians 5:18

in every thing give thanks; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus towards you.

Titus 2:14

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

Hebrews 10:36

For you have need of patience, in order that, having done the will of God, you will inherit the promise.

Hebrews 12:16

lest any one may be a fornicator, or a profane person, as was Esau, who for one morsel sold his birthright.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is honorable among all, and the couch undefiled: for God will judge fornicators and adulterers.

Hebrews 13:21

in every good thing to do his will, doing that which is acceptable in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory unto the age of the ages. Amen.

1 John 2:17

The world and its lust are indeed passing away; but the one doing the will of God abides forever.

Revelation 21:8

But to the cowardly, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and the murderers, and the fornicators, and the sorcerers, and the idolaters, and all liars, shall be their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

Revelation 22:15

For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and harlots, and murderers, and idolaters, and every one doing and loving falsehood.