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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• ¹⁵Know ye not, that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then, taking the members of Christ, make [them] members of a harlot? Let it not be.
¹⁸Flee fornication. Every sin whatsoever that a man may Practice is outside the body, but the fornicator sinneth against his own body. (1 Cor. 6:15,18)

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1 Thess. 5:18• ¹⁸in everything give thanks, for this [is] God's will in Christ Jesus toward you. (1 Thess. 5:18)

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Psa. 40:8• (Psa. 40:8)

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Psa. 143:10• (Psa. 143:10)

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Matt. 7:21• ²¹Not everyone that saith to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but he that doeth the will of my Father that is in the heavens. (Matt. 7:21)

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

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

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

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

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Rom. 12:2• ²and not to fashion yourselves to this age but to be transformed by the renewing of the 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• ¹⁷On this account be not foolish, but understanding what the will of the Lord [is]. (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• ⁹On this account we also, from the day that we heard, do not cease praying for you, and asking that ye might 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• ¹²There saluteth you Epaphras, who [is] of you, a bondman of Jesus Christ, always striving for you in prayers, 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, 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 unto the doing of his will, working in you what is well-pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ; to whom [be] the glory unto the ages of the ages. Amen. (Heb. 13:21)

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1 Peter 4:2• ²no longer to live the rest of time in 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 doeth the will of God abideth forever. (1 John 2:17)

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1 Thess. 4:4• ⁴that each of you know how to possess himself of 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 may your spirit, and soul and body be preserved entire without blame 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 didst send me into the world, I also sent them into the world.
¹⁹And for their sakes I sanctify myself that they also may be sanctified in truth. (John 17:17‑19)

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Acts 20:32• ³²And now 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 that are sanctified. (Acts 20:32)

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

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Rom. 6:22• ²²But now freed from sin, and made bondservants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end life eternal. (Rom. 6:22)

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Rom. 6• (Rom. 6)

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

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

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Eph. 5:26‑27• ²⁶that he might sanctify it, having cleansed [it] by the washing of water in [the] word,
²⁷that he might himself present to himself the assembly glorious, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things; but that it should be holy and blameless. (Eph. 5:26‑27)

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2 Thess. 2:13• ¹³But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of [the] Lord, that God chose you from [the] beginning unto 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 people for his own possession, zealous of good works. (Titus 2:14)

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1 Peter 1:2• ²elect, according to foreknowledge of God [the] Father, in [the] Spirit's sanctification, unto obedience and blood-sprinkling of Jesus Christ: grace to you and peace be multiplied. (1 Peter 1:2)

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

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Acts 15:20,29• ²⁰but write to them that they may abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
²⁹to abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and blood, and things strangled, and fornication, from which if ye keep yourselves ye shall 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, ill-will; 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 absolutely with the fornicators of this world, or the covetous and rapacious or idolatrous, since [in that case] ye must go out of the world.
¹¹But now I have written to you, if anyone called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or idolatrous, or abusive, or a drunkard, or rapacious, not to mix with [him], with such an one not even to eat. (1 Cor. 5:9‑11)

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1 Cor. 6:9‑10,13‑18• ⁹What! know ye not that unjust [men] shall not inherit God's kingdom? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers of themselves as women, nor abusers of themselves with men,
¹⁰nor rapacious, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit God's kingdom.
¹³Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats, but God will bring to nought both it and them; but the body [is] not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
¹⁴And God both raised the Lord, and will raise up us by his power.
¹⁵Know ye not, that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then, taking the members of Christ, make [them] members of a harlot? Let it not be.
¹⁶What! know ye not that he that is joined to the harlot is one body? For, saith he, the two [shall be] one flesh.
¹⁷But he that is joined to the Lord is one spirit.
¹⁸Flee fornication. Every sin whatsoever that a man may Practice is outside the body, but the fornicator sinneth 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 have her own husband. (1 Cor. 7:2)

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2 Cor. 12:21• ²¹lest on my coming again my God humble me among you, and, bewail many of those that have sinned heretofore and not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and indecency which they committed. (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 covetousness, let it not be even named among you, even as becometh saints;
⁴and filthiness and foolish talking or jesting, which are not becoming, but rather thanksgiving.
⁵For this ye are aware of, knowing that no fornicator nor unclean nor covetous [person], who is an idolater, hath 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 that [are] on the earth, fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry; (Col. 3:5)

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

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Heb. 13:4• ⁴[Be] marriage in all [things] held in honour, and the bed undefiled; but fornicators and adulterers God will judge. (Heb. 13:4)

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Rev. 21:8• ⁸But for the cowardly and faithless and abominable and murderers and fornicators and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part {i}shall be{/i} in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death. (Rev. 21:8)

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Rev. 22:15• ¹⁵Without {i}are{/i} the dogs and the sorcerers and the fornicators and the murderers and the idolaters and every one that loveth and practiceth 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;