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


In Context

1 For the rest, then, brethren, we beg you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, even as ye have received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as ye also do walk, that ye would abound still more.

2 For ye know what charges we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

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

4 that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour,

5 (not in passionate desire, even as the nations who 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 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,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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