1 Thessalonians 4:3

Appeal For Continuing Sanctification

² For we know what commands we gave you by the Lord Jesus. ³ For this is the will of God, your sanctification, for you to abstain from fornication, ⁴ each one of you to 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 do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

Ephesians 5:3-5

For let fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness not be once named among you, as becomes saints,

Ephesians 6:6

not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart,

Colossians 1:9

For this cause we also, since the day we heard, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that you might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,

Colossians 3:5

Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness (which is idolatry),

1 Thessalonians 4:4

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

1 Thessalonians 5:23

And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blamelessly at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2 Thessalonians 2:13

But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brothers beloved of the Lord, because God has from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth,

1 Peter 4:2

in order no longer to live in the lusts of men, but in the will of God the remaining time in the flesh.

John 17:17-19

Sanctify them through Your truth. Your Word is truth.

Acts 15:29

that you abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which, if you keep yourselves, you shall do well. Be prospered.

Romans 6:22

But now, being made free from sin, and having become slaves to God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end everlasting life.

1 Corinthians 1:30

But of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who of God is made to us wisdom and righteousness and sanctification and redemption;

Colossians 4:12

Epaphras greets you, he being of you, a servant of Christ, always laboring fervently for you in prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

1 Peter 1:2

according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. May grace and peace be multiplied to you.

Psalm 40:8

I delight to do Your will, O My God; and Your Law is within My heart.

Psalm 143:10

Teach me to do Your will; for You are my God; Your Spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.

Matthew 7:21

Not everyone who says to Me, Lord! Lord! shall enter the kingdom of Heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in Heaven.

Matthew 12:50

For whoever shall do the will of My Father in Heaven, the same is My brother and sister and mother.

Matthew 15:19

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies;

Mark 3:35

For whoever does the will of God, the same is My brother and My sister and My mother.

John 4:34

Jesus said to them, My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me and to finish His work.

John 7:17

If anyone desires to do His will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it is of God, or I speak from Myself.

Acts 15:20

but that we write to them that they should abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.

Acts 20:32

And now, brothers, I commend you to God, and to the Word of His grace, which is able to build you up and to give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.

Acts 26:18

in order to open their eyes so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the authority of Satan to God, so 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 unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; being full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, evil habits, becoming whisperers,

Romans 12:2

And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, in order to prove by you what is that good and pleasing and perfect will of God.

1 Corinthians 5:9-11

I wrote to you in the letter not to associate intimately with fornicators;

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers, nor homosexuals,

1 Corinthians 6:13-18

Meats for the belly and the belly for meats, but God shall destroy both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord is for the body.

1 Corinthians 7:2

But, because of the fornications, let each have his own wife, and let each have her own husband.

2 Corinthians 12:21

lest in my coming again my God will humble me with you; and I shall mourn many who have already sinned, and not repenting over the uncleanness, and fornication, and lustfulness which they have practiced.

Galatians 5:19

Now the works of the flesh are clearly revealed, which are: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lustfulness,

Ephesians 5:26-27

that He might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the Word,

1 Thessalonians 5:18

In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

Titus 2:14

who gave Himself for us that He might redeem us from all iniquity and purify to Himself a special people, zealous of good works.

Hebrews 10:36

For you have need of patience, so that after you have done the will of God you might receive the promise.

Hebrews 12:16

(lest there be any fornicator, or profane person like Esau, who for one morsel of food sold his birthright.

Hebrews 13:4

Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled, but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Hebrews 13:21

make you perfect in every good work to do His will, working in you that which is well pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ, to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.

1 John 2:17

And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but he who does the will of God abides forever.

Revelation 21:8

But the fearful, and the unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, will have their part in the Lake burning with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

Revelation 22:15

But outside are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and everyone who loves and makes a lie.