1 Thessalonians 4:3 It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;

English Standard Version
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;

New American Standard Bible
For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality;

King James Bible
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For this is God's will, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality,

International Standard Version
For it is God's will that you be sanctified: You must abstain from sexual immorality.

American Standard Version
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;

Douay-Rheims Bible
For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that you should abstain from fornication;

Darby Bible Translation
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;

Young's Literal Translation
for this is the will of God -- your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

Cross References

Matthew 5:32
But I say to you, That whoever shall put away his wife, saving for the cause of fornication, causes her to commit adultery: and whoever shall marry her that is divorced commits adultery.

1 Corinthians 6:18
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is without the body; but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.

Ephesians 5:17
Why be you not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

1 Thessalonians 4:2
For you know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

4:1-8 To abide in the faith of the gospel is not enough, we must abound in the work of faith. The rule according to which all ought to walk and act, is the commandments given by the Lord Jesus Christ. Sanctification, in the renewal of their souls under the influences of the Holy Spirit, and attention to appointed duties, constituted the will of God respecting them. In aspiring after this renewal of the soul unto holiness, strict restraint must be put upon the appetites and senses of the body, and on the thoughts and inclinations of the will, which lead to wrong uses of them. The Lord calls none into his family to live unholy lives, but that they may be taught and enabled to walk before him in holiness. Some make light of the precepts of holiness, because they hear them from men; but they are God's commands, and to break them is to despise God.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

3. For—enforcing the assertion that his "commandments" were "by (the authority of) the Lord Jesus" (1Th 4:2). Since "this is the will of God," let it be your will also.

fornication—not regarded as a sin at all among the heathen, and so needing the more to be denounced (Ac 15:20).