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
I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land …
Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth …
For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, …
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.
Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his …
If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether …
Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.
And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.