1 Thessalonians 4:3 Cross References - Twentieth_Century

³ For this is God's purpose--that you should be pure; abstaining from all immorality;

²¹ Not every one who says to me 'Master! Master!' will enter the Kingdom of Heaven, but only he who does the will of my Father who is in Heaven.

⁵⁰ For any one who does the will of my Father who is in Heaven is my brother and sister and mother."

¹⁹ For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts--murder, adultery, unchastity, theft, perjury, slander.

³⁵ Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother."

³⁴ "My food," replied Jesus, "is to do the will of him who sent me, and to complete his work.

¹⁷ If any one has the will to do God's will, he will find out whether my teaching is from God, or whether I speak on my own authority.

¹⁷ Consecrate them by the Truth; thy Message is Truth. ¹⁸ Just as thou has sent me as thy Messenger to the world, so I send them as my Messengers to the world. ¹⁹ And it is for their sakes that I am consecrating myself, so that they also may be truly consecrated.

²⁰ But we should write to them to abstain from food that has been polluted by being sacrificed to idols, from impurity, from eating the flesh of strangled animals, and from blood.

²⁹ That you abstain from food offered to idols, from blood, from eating the flesh of strangled animals, and from impurity. If you guard yourselves against such things, it will be well with you. Farewell.'

³² And now I commend you to the Lord and to the Message of his Love--a Message which has the power to build up your characters, and to give you your place among all those who have become Christ's People.

¹⁸ To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God; so that they may receive pardon for their sins, and a place among those who have become God's People, by faith in me.'

²⁹ They reveled in every form of wickedness, evil, greed, vice. Their lives were full of envy, murder, quarreling, treachery, malice.

²² But now that you have been set free from the control of Sin, and have become servants to God, the fruit that you reap is an ever-increasing holiness, and the end Immortal Life.

² Do not conform to the fashion of this world; but be transformed by the complete change that has come over your minds, so that you may discern what God's will is--all that is good, acceptable, and perfect.

³⁰ But you, by your union with Christ Jesus, belong to God; and Christ, by God's will, became not only our Wisdom, but also our Righteousness, Holiness, and Deliverance,

⁹ I told you, in my letter, not to associate with immoral people- - ¹⁰ Not, of course, meaning men of the world who are in immoral, or who are covetous and grasping, or who worship idols; for then you would have to leave the world altogether. ¹¹ But, as things are, I say that you are not to associate with any one who, although a Brother in name, is immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or grasping-no, not even to sit at table with such people.

⁹ Do not you know that wrong-doers will have no share in God's Kingdom? Do not be deceived. No one who is immoral, or an idolater, or an adulterer, or licentious, or a sodomite, ¹⁰ Or a thief, or covetous, or a drunkard, or abusive, or grasping, will have any share in God's Kingdom. ¹¹ Such some of you used to be; but you washed yourselves clean. You became Christ's People! you were pronounced righteous through the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ, and through the Spirit of our God!

¹³ Food exists for the stomach, and the stomach for food; but God will put an end to both the one and the other. The body, however, exists, not for immorality, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body; ¹⁴ And, as God has raised the Lord, so he will raise up us also by the exercise of his power. ¹⁵ Do not you know that your bodies are Christ's members? Am I, then, to take the members that belong to the Christ and make them the members of a prostitute? Heaven forbid! ¹⁶ Or do not you know that a man who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body (for 'the two,' it is said, 'will become one'); ¹⁷ While a man who is united with the Lord is one with him in spirit? ¹⁸ Shun all immorality. Every other sin that men commit is something outside the body; but an immoral man sins against his own body.

² But, owing to the prevalence of immorality, I advise every man to have his own wife, and every woman her husband.

²¹ I am afraid lest, on my next visit, my God may humble me in regard to you, and that I may have to mourn over many who have long been sinning, and have not repented of the impurity, immorality, and sensuality, in which they have indulged.

¹⁹ The sins of our earthly nature are unmistakable. They are sins like these--unchastity, impurity, indecency,

³ As for unchastity and every kind of impurity, or greed, do not let them even be mentioned among you, as befits Christ's People, ⁴ Nor shameful conduct, nor foolish talk or jesting, for they are wholly out of place among you; but rather thanksgiving. ⁵ For of this you may be sure--that no one who is unchaste or impure or greedy of gain (for to be greedy of gain is idolatry) has any place awaiting him in the kingdom of the Christ and God.

¹⁷ Therefore do not grow thoughtless, but try to understand what the Lord's will is.

²⁶ To make her holy, after purifying her by the Washing with the Water, according to his promise; ²⁷ So that he might himself bring the Church, in all her beauty, into his own presence, with no spot or wrinkle or blemish of any kind, but that she might be holy and faultless.

⁶ Not only when their eyes are on you, as if you had merely to please men, but as slaves of Christ, who are trying to carry out the will of God.

⁹ And therefore we, from the very day that we heard this, have never ceased praying for you, or asking that you may possess that deeper knowledge of the will of God, which comes through all true spiritual wisdom and insight.

⁵ Therefore destroy all that is earthly in you--immorality, uncleanness, passions, evil desires, and that greed which is idolatry.

¹² Epaphras, who is one of yourselves, sends you his greeting. He is a servant of Christ Jesus, and is always most earnest in your behalf in his prayers, praying that you may stand firm, with a matured faith and with a sure conviction of all that is in accordance with God's will.

⁴ Each of you recognizing the duty of taking one woman for his wife, purely and honorably,

¹⁸ Under all circumstances give thanks to God. For this is his will for you as made known in Christ Jesus.

²³ May God himself, the giver of peace, make you altogether holy; and may your spirits, souls, and bodies be kept altogether faultless until the Coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

¹³ But, Brothers, whom the Lord loves, it is our duty always to thank God about you, for, from the first, God chose you for Salvation through the purifying influence of the Spirit, and your belief in the Truth. ¹⁴ For he gave himself on our behalf, to deliver us from all wickedness, and to purify for himself a People who should be peculiarly his own and eager to do good.

³⁶ You still have need of patient endurance, in order that, when you have done God's will, you may obtain the fulfillment of his promise.

¹⁶ Take care that no one becomes immoral, or irreligious like Esau, who sold his birthright for a single meal.

⁴ Let marriage be honoured by all and the married life be pure; for God will judge those who are immoral and those who commit adultery.

²¹ may God make you perfect in everything that is good, so that you may be able to do his will. May he bring out in us all that is pleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ, to whom be all glory for ever and ever. Amen.

² and who were chosen in accordance with the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the consecration of the Spirit, to learn obedience, and to be purified by the sprinkling of the Blood of Jesus Christ, from Peter, an Apostle of Jesus Christ. May blessing and peace be yours in ever-increasing measure.

² and so will live the rest of his earthly life guided, not by human passions, but by the will of God.

¹⁷ And the world, and all that it gratifies, is passing away, but he who does God's will remains for ever.

⁸ But as for cowards, unbelievers, the degraded, murderers, the impure, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars--their place will be in the burning lake of fire and sulphur. That is the Second Death.'

¹⁵ Outside will be the filthy, the sorcerers, the impure, the murderers, the idolaters, and all who love the false and live it.'