1 Thessalonians 4

3 For this is God’s will,  * 4:3 1Th 5:18 your sanctification:  * 4:3 Rm 6:19,22; 1Co 1:30; 2Th 2:13; 1Tm 2:15; Heb 12:14; 1Pt 1:2 that you keep away  * 4:3 1Tm 4:3 from sexual immorality, 4 that each of you knows how to control his own body  * 4:4 Or to acquire his own wife; lit to possess his own vessel in holiness and honor, 5 not with lustful passions,  * 4:5 2Pt 1:4; 2:10 like the Gentiles, who don’t know God. 6 This means one must not transgress against and take advantage  * 4:6 2Co 12:17 of a brother or sister in this manner, because the Lord is an avenger of all these offenses, as we also previously told and warned you. 7 For God has not called us to impurity  * 4:7 Mt 23:27; 2Co 12:21; Gl 5:19; Eph 4:19; 5:3; Col 3:5; 1Th 2:3 but to live in holiness.