1 Thessalonians 4

3 For this is the will of God, *Rom. 6:19,22;1 Cor. 1:30;2 Thess. 2:13;1 Tim. 2:15;Heb. 12:14;1 Pet. 1:2your sanctification:*4:3 Or your holiness*See 1 Cor. 6:18that you abstain from sexual immorality; 4 that each one of you know how to control his own *1 Pet. 3:7;[2 Cor. 4:7] body*4:4 Or how to take a wife for himself; Greek how to possess his own vessel in holiness and *[Rom. 1:24]honor, 5 not in *See Rom. 1:26the passion of lust *Eph. 4:17like the Gentiles *Ps. 79:6;Jer. 9:3;10:25;See Gal. 4:8who do not know God; 6 that no one transgress and *1 Cor. 6:8wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is *Rom. 13:4;[Rom. 12:19;Heb. 13:4]an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you. 7 For *ver. 3;See 1 Pet. 1:15God has not called us for *ch. 2:3impurity, but in holiness.