(A)[a]For this is the will of God even your [b]sanctification, and that ye should abstain from fornication,

[c]That everyone of you should know, how to possess his vessel in holiness and honor,

[d]And not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 4:3 This is the sum of those things, which he delivered them, to dedicate themselves wholly to God. And he condemneth plainly all filthiness through lust, because it is altogether contrary to the will of God.
  2. 1 Thessalonians 4:3 See John 19:17.
  3. 1 Thessalonians 4:4 Another reason, because it defileth the body.
  4. 1 Thessalonians 4:5 The third, because the Saints are discerned from them which know not God, by honesty and purity.

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