New American Standard Bible 2020

1 Thessalonians 4:3-7

3For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you 1abstain from sexual immorality;

4that 2each of you know how to 3possess his own 4 5vessel in sanctification and 6honor,

5not in 7 8lustful passion, like the Gentiles who 9do not know God;

6and that no one violate the rights and 10take advantage of his brother or sister 11in the matter, because 12the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also 13told you previously and solemnly warned you.

7For 14God has not called us for 15 16impurity, but in sanctification.

Read all of 1 Thessalonians 4

Notes

1. 1 Thessalonians 4:3 1 Cor 6:18 ↩
2. 1 Thessalonians 4:4 1 Cor 7:2, 9 ↩
3. 1 Thessalonians 4:4 Or acquire ↩
4. 1 Thessalonians 4:4 I.e., body; or wife ↩
5. 1 Thessalonians 4:4 2 Cor 4:7; 1 Pet 3:7 ↩
6. 1 Thessalonians 4:4 Rom 1:24 ↩
7. 1 Thessalonians 4:5 Lit passion of lust ↩
8. 1 Thessalonians 4:5 Rom 1:26 ↩
9. 1 Thessalonians 4:5 Gal 4:8 ↩
10. 1 Thessalonians 4:6 1 Cor 6:8 ↩
11. 1 Thessalonians 4:6 2 Cor 7:11 ↩
12. 1 Thessalonians 4:6 Rom 12:19; 13:4; Heb 13:4 ↩
13. 1 Thessalonians 4:6 Luke 16:28; 1 Thess 2:11; Heb 2:6 ↩
14. 1 Thessalonians 4:7 1 Pet 1:15 ↩
15. 1 Thessalonians 4:7 I.e., moral corruption ↩
16. 1 Thessalonians 4:7 1 Thess 2:3 ↩

Notes

Commentaries on 1 Thessalonians 4