1 Thessalonians 4:3
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
Context
This verse from 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4 connects to 10 cross-references. Instruction on sexual holiness: abstain from sexual immorality, controlling your own body in holiness and honor, not in passionate lust like the Gentiles. Concerning those who have died: we should not grieve as those without hope, for Jesus who died …
Other Translations
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;
for this is the will of God--your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,
For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh;
Cross References
For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.
To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, …
And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build …
That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which …
But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, …
And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which …
Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that …
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to …