1 Thessalonians 4:3 Cross References - Living_Oracles

³ for this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from whoredom-

²¹ Not every one who says to me, Master, Master, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the will of my Father, who is in heaven.

⁵⁰ For whosoever does the will of my Father who is in heaven, is my brother, and sister, and mother.

¹⁹ For out of the heart proceed malicious contrivances, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, calumnies.

¹⁷ Consecrate them by the truth; thy word is the truth. ¹⁸ As thou hast made me thy Apostle to the world, I have made them my Apostles to the world. ¹⁹ And I consecrate myself for them, that they may be consecrated through the truth.

¹⁹ Now, the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these. Fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

² so that he no longer lives his remaining time in the flesh, to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

³⁵ for whosoever does the will of God, is my brother, my sister, and mother.

³⁴ Jesus answered, My food is to do the will of him who sent me, and to finish his work.

¹⁷ If any one will do his will, he shall discern whether my doctrine proceeds from God, or from myself.

²⁰ but to write to them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from that which is strangled, and from blood.

²⁹ that you abstain from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from anything strangled, and from fornication: from which you will do well to keep yourselves. Farewell.

³² And now, brethren, I recommend you to God, and to the word of his favor, who is able to edify you, and to give you an inheritance among all that are sanctified.

¹⁸ to open their eyes, to turn them from darkness to light, and from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God; that they may receive forgiveness of sons, and an inheritance amongst the sanctified, through faith in me.

²⁹ being filled with all injustice, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, bad habits, whisperers,

²² But now, being set free from sin, and having become servants of God, you have your fruit to holiness: and the end, everlasting life.

² And be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind; that you may approve the will of God, which is good, and acceptable, and perfect.

³⁰ Of him, therefore, you are in Christ Jesus, who is become to us wisdom from God, justification, also, and sanctification, and redemption.

⁹ I wrote you, in that epistle, not to associate with the vicious; ¹⁰ but I did not mean in general the fornicators of this world, the avaricious, the rapacious, or the idolaters; seeing, then, indeed, you must go out of the world. ¹¹ But now I write to you, if any one, called a brother, be a fornicator, or a covetous person, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; not to associate, not even to eat, with such a person.

⁹ Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor misers, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such were some of you; but you are washed, but you are sanctified, but you are justified, by the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

¹³ Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats; however, God will destroy both it and them. Now, the body was not made for uncleanness, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body: ¹⁴ and God has both raised the Lord, and will raise up us by his own power. ¹⁵ Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall, I, then, take the members of Christ and make them the members of a harlot? By no means. ¹⁶ What! do you not know that he who is strongly attached to a harlot is one body? for he says, "The two shall be one flesh." ¹⁷ But he, who is strongly attached to the Lord, is one spirit. ¹⁸ Flee uncleanness. Every sin which a man commits, is without the body: but he who commits uncleanness, sins against his own body.

² Nevertheless, on account of uncleanness, let every man have a wife of his own, and let every woman have her own husband.

²¹ And lest, when I come again, my God may humble me among you; and I shall bewail many, who have formerly sinned, and have not reformed from the uncleanness, and fornication, and lasciviousness, which they have committed.

³ But whoredom, and all uncleanness, and inordinate desire- let them not even be named among you; (as it becomes saints;) ⁴ nor obscenity, nor foolish talking, nor double meanings, nor things uncomely; but rather thanksgiving. ⁵ For this you know, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor lascivious man, who is an idolater, has inheritance in the kingdom of Christ, and of God.

¹⁷ Therefore be not simpletons, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

²⁶ that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it with a bath of water, with the word. ²⁷ That he might present it to himself glorious, a congregation not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it might be holy, and without blemish.

⁶ Not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul;

⁹ For this reason, we also, from the day we heard these things, do not cease to pray for you, and to request that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will, in all wisdom and spiritual understanding-

⁵ Mortify, therefore, your members which are on the earth; fornication, impurity, passion, evil desire, and licentiousness, which is idolatry;

¹² Epaphras, who came from you, a servant of Christ, salutes you; at all times fervently striving for you by prayers, that you may stand perfect and complete in the whole will of God.

⁴ that every one of you should know how to possess his own body in sanctification and honor-

¹⁸ In everything give thanks; for this is the will of God, by Christ Jesus, concerning you.

²³ And may the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your whole person, the spirit, and the soul, and the body, be preserved unblameable, till the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹³ But we are bound to give thanks to God always for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God has, from the beginning, chosen you to salvation, through sanctification of spirit, and belief of truth; ¹⁴ who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify to himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

³⁶ For you must persevere in doing the will of God, that you may obtain the promised reward.

¹⁶ lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau; who, for one meal, gave away his birthrights.

⁴ Let marriage be honorable among all, and the bed unpolluted; for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

²¹ make you fit for every good work, to do his will, producing in you what is acceptable in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom we the glory for ever and ever. Amen.

² according to the predetermination of God the Father, by a sanctification of the Spirit, in order to obedience, and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Favor and peace be multiplied to you.

¹⁷ Now the world passes away, and the lust of it; be he who does the will of God, abides forever.

⁸ But, as for the cowards, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and prostitutes, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars-their part shall be in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

¹⁵ Without are the dogs, and the sorcerers, and the fornicators, and the murderers, and the idolaters, and every one who loves and invents a lie.)