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


In Context

1 Finally, brothers, we instructed you how to live in order to please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus to do this more and more.

2 For you know what instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.

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

4 that each of you should learn to control his own body in a way that is holy and honorable,

5 not in passionate lust like the heathen, who do not know God;

1st 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 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,

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: