1 Thes 4:3 Cross References

1 Thessalonians 4:3

3: God wants you to be holy, so you should keep clear of all sexual sin.

1 Peter 4:2

  1. And you won't spend the rest of your life chasing after evil desires, but you will be anxious to do the will of God.

1 Thessalonians 5:23

  1. Now may the God of peace make you holy in every way, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless until that day when our Lord Jesus Christ comes again.

Romans 12:2

  1. Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will know what God wants you to do, and you will know how good and pleasing and perfect his will really is.

Ephesians 5:17

  1. Don't act thoughtlessly, but try to understand what the Lord wants you to do.

Hebrews 13:4

  1. Give honor to marriage, and remain faithful to one another in marriage. God will surely judge people who are immoral and those who commit adultery.

Ephesians 5:3

  1. Let there be no sexual immorality, impurity, or greed among you. Such sins have no place among God's people.
  2. Obscene stories, foolish talk, and coarse jokes--these are not for you. Instead, let there be thankfulness to God.
  3. You can be sure that no immoral, impure, or greedy person will inherit the Kingdom of Christ and of God. For a greedy person is really an idolater who worships the things of this world.

1 Thessalonians 4:4

  1. Then each of you will control your body and live in holiness and honor--

Colossians 3:5

  1. So put to death the sinful, earthly things lurking within you. Have nothing to do with sexual sin, impurity, lust, and shameful desires. Don't be greedy for the good things of this life, for that is idolatry.

Galatians 5:19

  1. When you follow the desires of your sinful nature, your lives will produce these evil results: sexual immorality, impure thoughts, eagerness for lustful pleasure,

2 Thessalonians 2:13

  1. As for us, we always thank God for you, dear brothers and sisters loved by the Lord. We are thankful that God chose you to be among the first to experience salvation, a salvation that came through the Spirit who makes you holy and by your belief in the truth.

Ephesians 5:26

  1. to make her holy and clean, washed by baptism and God's word.
  2. He did this to present her to himself as a glorious church without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish. Instead, she will be holy and without fault.

John 17:17

  1. Make them pure and holy by teaching them your words of truth.
  2. As you sent me into the world, I am sending them into the world.
  3. And I give myself entirely to you so they also might be entirely yours.

Matthew 7:21

  1. "Not all people who sound religious are really godly. They may refer to me as 'Lord,' but they still won't enter the Kingdom of Heaven. The decisive issue is whether they obey my Father in heaven.

Psalms 40:8

  1. I take joy in doing your will, my God, for your law is written on my heart."

Acts 15:29

  1. You must abstain from eating food offered to idols, from consuming blood or eating the meat of strangled animals, and from sexual immorality. If you do this, you will do well. Farewell."

Ephesians 6:6

  1. Work hard, but not just to please your masters when they are watching. As slaves of Christ, do the will of God with all your heart.

1 Corinthians 6:9

  1. Don't you know that those who do wrong will have no share in the Kingdom of God? Don't fool yourselves. Those who indulge in sexual sin, who are idol worshipers, adulterers, male prostitutes, homosexuals,
  2. thieves, greedy people, drunkards, abusers, and swindlers--none of these will have a share in the Kingdom of God.
  3. There was a time when some of you were just like that, but now your sins have been washed away, and you have been set apart for God. You have been made right with God because of what the Lord Jesus Christ and the Spirit of our God have done for you.

1 Peter 1:2

  1. God the Father chose you long ago, and the Spirit has made you holy. As a result, you have obeyed Jesus Christ and are cleansed by his blood. May you have more and more of God's special favor and wonderful peace.

Revelation 21:8

  1. But cowards who turn away from me, and unbelievers, and the corrupt, and murderers, and the immoral, and those who practice witchcraft, and idol worshipers, and all liars--their doom is in the lake that burns with fire and sulfur. This is the second death."

1 Corinthians 7:2

  1. But because there is so much sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife, and each woman should have her own husband.

1 Corinthians 6:13

  1. You say, "Food is for the stomach, and the stomach is for food." This is true, though someday God will do away with both of them. But our bodies were not made for sexual immorality. They were made for the Lord, and the Lord cares about our bodies.
  2. And God will raise our bodies from the dead by his marvelous power, just as he raised our Lord from the dead.
  3. Don't you realize that your bodies are actually parts of Christ? Should a man take his body, which belongs to Christ, and join it to a prostitute? Never!
  4. And don't you know that if a man joins himself to a prostitute, he becomes one body with her? For the Scriptures say, "The two are united into one."
  5. But the person who is joined to the Lord becomes one spirit with him.

1 John 2:17

  1. And this world is fading away, along with everything it craves. But if you do the will of God, you will live forever.

Matthew 15:19

  1. For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, all other sexual immorality, theft, lying, and slander.

Psalms 143:10

  1. Teach me to do your will, for you are my God. May your gracious Spirit lead me forward on a firm footing.

Mark 3:35

  1. Anyone who does God's will is my brother and sister and mother."

John 4:34

  1. Then Jesus explained: "My nourishment comes from doing the will of God, who sent me, and from finishing his work.

1 Thessalonians 5:18

  1. No matter what happens, always be thankful, for this is God's will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.

Acts 15:20

  1. except that we should write to them and tell them to abstain from eating meat sacrificed to idols, from sexual immorality, and from consuming blood or eating the meat of strangled animals.

2 Corinthians 12:21

  1. Yes, I am afraid that when I come, God will humble me again because of you. And I will have to grieve because many of you who sinned earlier have not repented of your impurity, sexual immorality, and eagerness for lustful pleasure.

Matthew 12:50

  1. Anyone who does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother!"

Acts 26:18

  1. to open their eyes so they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God. Then they will receive forgiveness for their sins and be given a place among God's people, who are set apart by faith in me.'

1 Corinthians 5:9

  1. When I wrote to you before, I told you not to associate with people who indulge in sexual sin.
  2. But I wasn't talking about unbelievers who indulge in sexual sin, or who are greedy or are swindlers or idol worshipers. You would have to leave this world to avoid people like that.
  3. What I meant was that you are not to associate with anyone who claims to be a Christian yet indulges in sexual sin, or is greedy, or worships idols, or is abusive, or a drunkard, or a swindler. Don't even eat with such people.

Romans 6:22

  1. But now you are free from the power of sin and have become slaves of God. Now you do those things that lead to holiness and result in eternal life.

Hebrews 13:20

  1. And now, may the God of peace, who brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, equip you with all you need for doing his will. May he produce in you, through the power of Jesus Christ, all that is pleasing to him. Jesus is the great Shepherd of the sheep by an everlasting covenant, signed with his blood. To him be glory forever and ever. Amen.

Titus 2:14

  1. He gave his life to free us from every kind of sin, to cleanse us, and to make us his very own people, totally committed to doing what is right.

Acts 20:32

  1. "And now I entrust you to God and the word of his grace--his message that is able to build you up and give you an inheritance with all those he has set apart for himself.

Hebrews 10:36

  1. Patient endurance is what you need now, so you will continue to do God's will. Then you will receive all that he has promised.

Colossians 1:9

  1. So we have continued praying for you ever since we first heard about you. We ask God to give you a complete understanding of what he wants to do in your lives, and we ask him to make you wise with spiritual wisdom.

Colossians 4:12

  1. Epaphras, from your city, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you his greetings. He always prays earnestly for you, asking God to make you strong and perfect, fully confident of the whole will of God.

John 7:17

  1. Anyone who wants to do the will of God will know whether my teaching is from God or is merely my own.

Romans 1:29

  1. Their lives became full of every kind of wickedness, sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, fighting, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip.

Hebrews 12:16

  1. Make sure that no one is immoral or godless like Esau. He traded his birthright as the oldest son for a single meal.

1 Corinthians 1:30

  1. God alone made it possible for you to be in Christ Jesus. For our benefit God made Christ to be wisdom itself. He is the one who made us acceptable to God. He made us pure and holy, and he gave himself to purchase our freedom.

Revelation 22:15

  1. Outside the city are the dogs--the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idol worshipers, and all who love to live a lie.
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