1 Thessalonians 4:3

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1 Thessalonians 4:1–5 · Berean Standard Bible

1 Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more.

2 For you know the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

3 For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;

4 each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,

5 not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;

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1 Thessalonians 4:4

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Sanctify them by the truth; Your word is truth.

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1 Corinthians 5:10

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I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.

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For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

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See to it that no one is sexually immoral, or is godless like Esau, who for a single meal sold his birthright.

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But to the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and sexually immoral and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their place will be in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death.”

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But outside are the dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices falsehood.