American Standard Version
1 Thessalonians 4:7
7For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
1 Thessalonians 4:7 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
- New International Version (NIV)For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.
- English Standard Version (ESV)For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness.
- New King James Version (NKJV)For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness.
Context of 1 Thessalonians 4:7
5not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God; 6that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in the matter: because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified. For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification. 8Therefore he that rejecteth, rejecteth not man, but God, who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you. 9But concerning love of the brethren ye have no need that one write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another;
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οὐ γὰρ ἐκάλεσεν ἡμᾶς ὁ θεὸς ἐπὶ ἀκαθαρσίᾳ ἀλλ᾽ ἐν ἁγιασμῷ.Read the interlinear
Cross-references for 1 Thessalonians 4:7
- Leviticus 11:44For I am Jehovah your God: sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that moveth upon the earth.
- Leviticus 19:2Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy; for I Jehovah your God am holy.
- Romans 1:7to all that are in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
- Romans 8:29For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren:
- 1 Corinthians 1:2unto the church of God which is at Corinth, eventhem that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, calledto besaints, with all that call upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place, theirLordand ours:
- Ephesians 1:4even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:
- Ephesians 2:10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.
- Ephesians 4:1I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beseech you to walk worthily of the calling wherewith ye were called,
- 2 Thessalonians 2:13But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, for that God chose you from the beginning unto salvation in sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
- 2 Timothy 1:9who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,
- Hebrews 12:14Follow after peace with all men, and the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord:
- 1 Peter 1:14as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in the time of your ignorance:
- 1 Peter 2:9But ye are an elect race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that ye may show forth the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:
- 1 Thessalonians 2:3For our exhortation is not of error, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile:
- Galatians 5:19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
- Ephesians 4:19who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
Commentaries on 1 Thessalonians 4:7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 7God hath not called us unto uncleanness - He is the creator of male and female, and the institutor of marriage, and he has called men and women to this state; but the end of this and all the other callings of God to man is holiness, not uncleanness. And they who use the marriage state as he directs, will find it conducive to their holiness and perfection.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 7For God hath not called us unto uncleanness - When he called us to be his followers, it was not that we should lead lives of impurity, but of holiness. We should, therefore, fulfil the purposes for which we were called into his kingdom. The word “uncleanness” ( ̓́ akatharsia), means, properly, “impurity, filth;” and then, in a moral sense, “pollution, lewdness,” as opposed to chastity; Romans 1:24; Romans 6:19; 2 Corinthians 12:21; Galatians 5:19…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7not … impurity … but … holiness: Compare with 1:4; 2:12; 5:23–24; 2 Thessalonians 2:13–14; 1 Peter 1:15–16.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 77. unto uncleanness--Greek, "for the purpose of." unto--rather as Greek, "in"; marking that "holiness" is the element in which our calling has place; in a sphere of holiness. Saint is another name for Christian.Read the comment
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- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
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- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Illustrated New Testament
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- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
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- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- The People’s New Testament
- Robertson’s Word Pictures
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
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