Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
For this is God’s will,
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:
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;
Julia Smith Translation
For this is the will of God, your consecration, that ye should keep away 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
Interlinear
Touto
Devotionals
Devotionals about 1 Thessalonians 4:3
Devotionals containing 1 Thessalonians 4:3
References
Hastings
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 you know what commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
3 For this is God’s will,
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Ephesians 5:17
So don’t be foolish, but understand
Ephesians 5:3-5
But sexual immorality
Ephesians 6:6
Don’t work only while being watched, in order to please men, but as slaves of Christ, do God’s will
Colossians 1:9
For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking
Colossians 3:5
Therefore, put to death what belongs to your worldly nature:
1 Thessalonians 4:4
so that each of you knows how to control his own body
1 Thessalonians 5:23
Now may the God of peace
2 Thessalonians 2:13
But we must always thank God for you, brothers loved by the Lord, because from the beginning
1 Peter 4:2
in order to live the remaining time in the flesh, no longer for human desires,
John 17:17-19
Acts 15:29
that you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from eating anything that has been strangled, and from sexual immorality.
Farewell.
Romans 6:22
But now, since you have been liberated from sin and have become enslaved to God,
1 Corinthians 1:30
But it is from Him that you are in Christ Jesus, who became God-given wisdom for us—our righteousness,
Colossians 4:12
Epaphras,
1 Peter 1:2
according to the foreknowledge
May grace and peace be multiplied to you.
Psalm 40:8
Your instruction lives within me.”
Psalm 143:10
for You are my God.
May Your gracious Spirit
lead me on level ground.
Matthew 7:21
Matthew 12:50
Matthew 15:19
Mark 3:35
John 4:34
John 7:17
Acts 15:20
but instead we should write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, from sexual immorality,
Acts 20:32
“And now
Acts 26:18
Romans 1:29
They are filled with all unrighteousness,
Romans 12:2
Do not be conformed
1 Corinthians 5:9-11
I wrote to you in a letter not to associate
1 Corinthians 6:9-11
Don’t you know that the unrighteous
1 Corinthians 6:13-18
“Food
1 Corinthians 7:2
But because sexual immorality is so common,
2 Corinthians 12:21
I fear that when I come my God will again
Galatians 5:19
Now the works of the flesh are obvious:
Ephesians 5:26-27
to make her holy, cleansing
1 Thessalonians 5:18
for this is God’s will
Titus 2:14
He gave Himself for us
Hebrews 10:36
For you need endurance, so that after you have done God’s will, you may receive what was promised.
Hebrews 12:16
And make sure that there isn’t any immoral or irreverent
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage must be respected by all, and the marriage bed kept undefiled, because God will judge immoral people and adulterers.
Hebrews 13:21
equip
1 John 2:17
And the world with its lust is passing away,
Revelation 21:8
But the cowards, unbelievers,
Revelation 22:15