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1 Thess. 4:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, thatn ye should abstain from fornication:

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1 Cor. 6:15,18• ¹⁵Do ye not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then, taking the members of the Christ, make them members of a harlot? Far be the thought.
¹⁸Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body. (1 Cor. 6:15,18)

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1 Thess. 5:18• ¹⁸in everything give thanks, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus towards you; (1 Thess. 5:18)

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Psa. 40:8• ⁸To do thy good pleasure, my God, is my delight, and thy law is within my heart. (Psa. 40:8)

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Psa. 143:10• ¹⁰Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: let thy good Spirit lead me in a plain country. (Psa. 143:10)

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Matt. 7:21• ²¹Not every one who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but he that does the will of my Father who is in the heavens. (Matt. 7:21)

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Matt. 12:50• ⁵⁰for whosoever shall do the will of my Father who is in the heavens, he is my brother, and sister, and mother. (Matt. 12:50)

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Mark 3:35• ³⁵for whosoever shall do the will of God, *he* is my brother, and sister, and mother. (Mark 3:35)

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John 4:34• ³⁴Jesus says to them, My food is that I should do the will of him that has sent me, and that I should finish his work. (John 4:34)

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John 7:17• ¹⁷If any one desire to practise his will, he shall know concerning the doctrine, whether it is of God, or that I speak from myself. (John 7:17)

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Rom. 12:2• ²And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God. (Rom. 12:2)

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Eph. 5:17• ¹⁷For this reason be not foolish, but understanding what is the will of the Lord. (Eph. 5:17)

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Eph. 6:6• ⁶not with eye-service as men-pleasers; but as bondmen of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul, (Eph. 6:6)

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Col. 1:9• ⁹For this reason *we* also, from the day we heard of your faith and love, do not cease praying and asking for you, to the end that ye may be filled with the full knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding, (Col. 1:9)

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Col. 4:12• ¹²Epaphras, who is one of you, the bondman of Christ Jesus, salutes you, always combating earnestly for you in prayers, to the end that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God. (Col. 4:12)

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Heb. 10:36• ³⁶For ye have need of endurance in order that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise. (Heb. 10:36)

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Heb. 13:21• ²¹perfect you in every good work to the doing of his will, doing in you what is pleasing before him through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for the ages of ages. Amen. (Heb. 13:21)

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1 Peter 4:2• ²no longer to live the rest of his time in the flesh to men's lusts, but to God's will. (1 Peter 4:2)

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1 John 2:17• ¹⁷And the world is passing, and its lust, but he that does the will of God abides for eternity. (1 John 2:17)

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1 Thess. 4:4• ⁴that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour, (1 Thess. 4:4)

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1 Thess. 5:23• ²³Now the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly: and your whole spirit, and soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Thess. 5:23)

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John 17:17‑19• ¹⁷Sanctify them by the truth: thy word is truth.
¹⁸As thou hast sent me into the world, I also have sent them into the world;
¹⁹and I sanctify myself for them, that they also may be sanctified by truth. (John 17:17‑19)

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Acts 20:32• ³²And now I commit you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up and give to you an inheritance among all the sanctified. (Acts 20:32)

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Acts 26:18• ¹⁸to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me. (Acts 26:18)

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Rom. 6:22• ²²But *now*, having got your freedom from sin, and having become bondmen to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end eternal life. (Rom. 6:22)

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1 Cor. 1:30• ³⁰But of him are *ye* in Christ Jesus, who has been made to us wisdom from God, and righteousness, and holiness, and redemption; (1 Cor. 1:30)

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1 Cor. 6:11• ¹¹And these things were some of you; but ye have been washed, but ye have been sanctified, but ye have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. (1 Cor. 6:11)

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Eph. 5:26‑27• ²⁶in order that he might sanctify it, purifying it by the washing of water by the word,
²⁷that *he* might present the assembly to himself glorious, having no spot, or wrinkle, or any of such things; but that it might be holy and blameless. (Eph. 5:26‑27)

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2 Thess. 2:13• ¹³But we ought to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, that God has chosen you from the beginning to salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth: (2 Thess. 2:13)

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Titus 2:14• ¹⁴who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all lawlessness, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous for good works. (Titus 2:14)

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1 Peter 1:2• ²elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, by sanctification of the Spirit, unto the obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied. (1 Peter 1:2)

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Matt. 15:19• ¹⁹For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies; (Matt. 15:19)

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Acts 15:20,29• ²⁰but to write to them to abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
²⁹to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from what is strangled, and from fornication; keeping yourselves from which ye will do well. Farewell. (Acts 15:20,29)

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Rom. 1:29• ²⁹being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers, (Rom. 1:29)

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1 Cor. 5:9‑11• ⁹I have written to you in the epistle not to mix with fornicators;
¹⁰not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the avaricious and rapacious, or idolaters, since then ye should go out of the world.
¹¹But now I have written to you, if any one called brother be fornicator, or avaricious, or idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or rapacious, not to mix with him; with such a one not even to eat. (1 Cor. 5:9‑11)

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1 Cor. 6:9‑10,13‑18• ⁹Do ye not know that unrighteous persons shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who make women of themselves, nor who abuse themselves with men,
¹⁰nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor abusive persons, nor the rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
¹³Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; but God will bring to nothing both it and them: but the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
¹⁴And God has both raised up the Lord, and will raise us up from among the dead by his power.
¹⁵Do ye not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then, taking the members of the Christ, make them members of a harlot? Far be the thought.
¹⁶Do ye not know that he that is joined to the harlot is one body? for the two, he says, shall be one flesh.
¹⁷But he that is joined to the Lord is one Spirit.
¹⁸Flee fornication. Every sin which a man may practise is without the body, but he that commits fornication sins against his own body. (1 Cor. 6:9‑10,13‑18)

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1 Cor. 7:2• ²but on account of fornications, let each have his own wife, and each woman have her own husband. (1 Cor. 7:2)

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2 Cor. 12:21• ²¹lest my God should humble me as to you when I come again, and that I shall grieve over many of those who have sinned before, and have not repented as to the uncleanness and fornication and licentiousness which they have practised. (2 Cor. 12:21)

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Gal. 5:19• ¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, (Gal. 5:19)

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Eph. 5:3‑5• ³But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints;
⁴and filthiness and foolish talking, or jesting, which are not convenient; but rather thanksgiving.
⁵For this ye are well informed of, knowing that no fornicator, or unclean person, or person of unbridled lust, who is an idolater, has inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God. (Eph. 5:3‑5)

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Col. 3:5• ⁵Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, vile passions, evil lust, and unbridled desire, which is idolatry. (Col. 3:5)

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Heb. 12:16• ¹⁶lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one meal sold his birthright; (Heb. 12:16)

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Heb. 13:4• ⁴Let marriage be held every way in honour, and the bed be undefiled; for fornicators and adulterers will God judge. (Heb. 13:4)

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Rev. 21:8• ⁸But to the fearful and unbelieving, and sinners, and those who make themselves abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part is in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone; which is the second death. (Rev. 21:8)

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Rev. 22:15• ¹⁵Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one that loves and makes a lie. (Rev. 22:15)

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Rev. 22• (Rev. 22)

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• On one thing especially was the apostle urgent, the personal purity of those who bore the name of Jesus; and the more so as the Greeks utterly failed in it. Their habits and their literature, their statesmen and their philosophers, all helped on the evil; their very religion conduced to aggravate the defilement by consecrating that to which depraved nature is itself prone. (“On 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12” by W. Kelly)

• It appears strange to us that such an exhortation should have been needful to such lively Christians as the Thessalonians; but we do not make allowance enough for the power of those habits in which persons have been brought up, and which become, as it were, a part of our nature and of the current of our thoughts. (“1 Thessalonians 4” by J.N. Darby)

• Few can have any adequate notion of the moral horrors of the heathen world, or of the insensibility of men generally to pollutions so shameless. Christ changed all for those who believe in Him. (“On 1 Thessalonians 4:1-12” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For this is the willf of God, even your sanctificationg, that ye should abstain from fornication;

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The article is not before "will" in Greek, and the force is much increased thereby. It is not merely the fact that God wills so, but it is a matter of God's will. God is looked at as a person in authority (not merely a divine Being), but the will is looked at characteristically, not merely as a fact that he so wills. This is of such a character that God himself wills it.

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Hagiasmos. See Note i at Rom. 1.4.

W. Kelly Translation

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For this is [the] will of God, your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;