3For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication:


In Context

1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brothers, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as you have received of us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more and more.

2 For you know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication:

4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor;

5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

1 Thessalonians 4:3 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

4:3For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

4:3It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

4:3For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that you should abstain from fornication;

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

4:3For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:3For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

4:3For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:3For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from lewdness.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

4:3For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

4:3for this is the will of God — your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,