Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
For this is the will of God, your consecration, that ye should keep away from fornication:
New American Standard Bible
For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you
King James Version
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
Holman Bible
For this is God’s will,
International Standard Version
For it is God's will that you be sanctified: You must abstain from sexual immorality.
A Conservative Version
For this is the will of God, your sanctification, for you to abstain from fornication,
American Standard Version
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;
Amplified
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;
An Understandable Version
For it is God's will that you should be dedicated to Him, [that is], you should avoid sexual immorality.
Anderson New Testament
For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you keep yourselves from lewdness;
Bible in Basic English
For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh;
Common New Testament
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that is, that you should abstain from sexual immorality;
Daniel Mace New Testament
and such is the will of God, that you should be holy, and avoid licentiousness;
Darby Translation
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;
Godbey New Testament
For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you abstain from fornication;
Goodspeed New Testament
It is God's will that you should be consecrated, that you abstain from immorality,
John Wesley New Testament
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;
King James 2000
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication:
Lexham Expanded Bible
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: [that] you abstain from sexual immorality;
Modern King James verseion
For this is the will of God, your sanctification, for you to abstain from fornication,
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For this is the will of God, even that ye should be holy, and that ye should abstain from fornication,
Moffatt New Testament
It is God's will that you should be consecrated, that you abstain from sexual vice,
Montgomery New Testament
For this is God's will, even your sanctification; that you should abstain from sexual vice.
NET Bible
For this is God's will: that you become holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality,
New Heart English Bible
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
Noyes New Testament
For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;
Sawyer New Testament
For this is the will of God, your purity, that you should abstain from fornication,
The Emphasized Bible
For, this, is a thing willed of God, your sanctification, - that ye should abstain from unchastity,
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from whoredom;
Twentieth Century New Testament
For this is God's purpose--that you should be pure; abstaining from all immorality;
Webster
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from lewdness.
Weymouth New Testament
For this is God's will--your purity of life, that you abstain from fornication;
Williams New Testament
For it is God's will that you should keep pure in person, that you should practice abstinence from sexual immorality,
World English Bible
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
Worrell New Testament
For this is the will of God??ven your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;
Worsley New Testament
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification: that ye should abstain from fornication,
Youngs Literal Translation
for this is the will of God -- your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,
Themes
Asceticism » General references to
Defrauding » Not defrauding others
Despisement » Who despises the lord
Despisement » Those that despise the commandments of the lord
Sanctification » Should exhort their people to walk in
Sanctification » Mortification of sin
Sanctification » God wills all saints to have
Sexual activities » What sexual activities are forbidden
Social duties » Brotherly love » Chastity
teaching » Who the lord teaches
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Devotionals about 1 Thessalonians 4:3
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Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Thessalonians 4:3
Prayers for 1 Thessalonians 4:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Appeal For Continuing Sanctification
2 For ye know what orders we gave you by the Lord Jesus. 3 For this is the will of God, your consecration, that ye should keep away from fornication: 4 For each of you to know how to possess his vessel in consecration and honour;
Phrases
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Cross References
Ephesians 5:17
For this be not foolish, but understanding what the will of the Lord.
Ephesians 5:3-5
And fornication, and all uncleanness, or overreaching, let it not be named with you, as becomes the holy;
Ephesians 6:6
Not with eye-service, as menpleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul:
Colossians 1:9
For this also we, from the day which we heard, ceased not praying for you, and asking that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
Colossians 3:5
Therefore kill your members that are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
1 Thessalonians 4:4
For each of you to know how to possess his vessel in consecration and honour;
1 Thessalonians 5:23
And the same God of peace consecrate you perfectly compete; and your whole spirit and soul and body be kept faultless to the arrival of our Lord Jesus Christ.
2 Thessalonians 2:13
And we ought to return thanks to God always for you, brethren dearly beloved by the Lord, that God chose you from the beginning to salvation in consecration of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
1 Peter 4:2
That no more to the eager desires of men, but to the will of God, should he live the remaining time in the flesh.
John 17:17-19
Render them holy in thy truth: thy word is truth.
Acts 15:29
To keep off from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and strangulation, and harlotry: from which keeping yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
Romans 6:22
And now freed from sin, and subdued to God, ye have your fruit to consecration, and the end life eternal.
1 Corinthians 1:30
And ye are of him in Christ Jesus, who became to us wisdom from God, and also justice, and consecration, and holiness:
Colossians 4:12
Epaphras, who of you, greets you, a servant of Christ, always contending for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfected and completed in all the will of God.
1 Peter 1:2
According to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in the consecration of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you, and peace, be multiplied.
Psalm 40:8
To do thine acceptance, O my God, I delighted; and thy law in the midst of my bowels.
Psalm 143:10
Teach me to do thine acceptance, for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; thou wilt guide me into a land of uprightness.
Matthew 7:21
Not every one saying to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens; but he doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens.
Matthew 12:50
For whoever should do the will of my Father, him in the heavens, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
Matthew 15:19
For from the heart come forth evil reflections, slaughters, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, defamations:
Mark 3:35
For whoever should do the will of God, he is my brother, and my sister, and mother.
John 4:34
Jesus says to them, My food is that I might do the will of him having sent me, and finish his work.
John 7:17
If any desire to do his will, he shall know of the teaching, whether it is of God, or I speak from myself.
Acts 15:20
But to send to them, to keep off from pollutions of images, and harlotry, and strangulation, and blood.
Acts 20:32
And now I commit you, brethren, to God, and to the word of his grace, being able to build up, and give you inheritance among all the consecrated.
Acts 26:18
To open their eyes, to turn them back from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, fur them to receive remission of sins, and inheritance with the consecrated by faith in me.
Romans 1:29
Having been filled with all injustice, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, badness; full of envy, slaughter, strife, deceit, malignity,
Romans 12:2
And be ye not conformed to this life, but be transformed by the renovation of your mind, for you to prove what the good, and the pleasing, and the perfected will of God.
1 Corinthians 5:9-11
I wrote to you in the epistle not to mix together with fornicators.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Or know ye not that the unjust shall not inherit the kingdom of God Be ye not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor sodomites,
1 Corinthians 6:13-18
Foods for the belly, and the belly for foods: and God will also leave unemployed this and them. And the body not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.
1 Corinthians 7:2
And, on account of fornication, let each have his own wife, and let each have her own husband.
2 Corinthians 12:21
Lest, coming again, my God should humble me with you, and I shall mourn for many of them having sinned before, and not having repented for uncleanness, and fornication, and licentiousness which they committed.
Galatians 5:19
And the works of the flesh are manifest, which are; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,
Ephesians 5:26-27
That he might consecrate it, having cleansed by the washing of water in the word,
1 Thessalonians 5:18
In every thing return thanks: for this the will of God in Christ Jesus toward you.
Titus 2:14
Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a distinguished people. zealous of good works.
Hebrews 10:36
For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
Hebrews 12:16
Lest any fornicator, or profane, as Esau, who for one act of' eating sold his primogeniture.
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage honoured in all, and the bed unpolluted: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Hebrews 13:21
Put you in proper order in every good work for doing his will, doing in you the thing pleasing before him, by Jesus Christ; to whom glory for the time of times. Amen.
1 John 2:17
And the world passes away, and its eager desires: but he doing the will of God remains for ever.
Revelation 21:8
But to the cowardly, and unbelieving, and to the abominable, and murderers, and to fornicators, and charmers, and to idolaters, and to all the lying, their part in the lake burning with fire and sulphur: which is the second death,
Revelation 22:15
And without, dogs, and charmers and fornicators, and murderers, and idolaters, and every one loving and doing a lie.