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Sanctification
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1 Thessalonians 4:1
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Finally then, brethren, we request and exhort
you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us instruction as to how you
ought to walk and please God (just as you actually do walk), that you excel still
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1 Thessalonians 4:2
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For you know what commandments we gave you by
the authority of the Lord Jesus. |
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1 Thessalonians 4:3
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For this is the will of God, your sanctification;
that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality; |
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1 Thessalonians 4:4
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that each of you know how to possess his own
vessel in sanctification and honor, |
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1 Thessalonians 4:5
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not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who
do not know God; |
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1 Thessalonians 4:6
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and that no man transgress and defraud his brother
in the matter because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we
also told you before and solemnly warned you. |
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1 Thessalonians 4:7
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For God has not called us for the purpose of
impurity, but in sanctification. |
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1 Thessalonians 4:8
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So, he who rejects this is not rejecting man
but the God who gives His Holy Spirit to you. |
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1 Thessalonians 4:9
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Now as to the love of the brethren, you have
no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love
one another; |
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1 Thessalonians 4:10
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for indeed you do practice it toward all the
brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, to excel still more, |
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1 Thessalonians 4:11
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and to make it your ambition to lead a quiet
life and attend to your own business and work with your hands, just as we commanded
you, |
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1 Thessalonians 4:12
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so that you will behave properly toward outsiders
and not be in any need. |
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1 Thessalonians 4:13
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But we do not want you to be uninformed, brethren,
about those who are asleep, so that you will not grieve as do the rest who have
no hope. |
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1 Thessalonians 4:14
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For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again,
even so God will bring with Him those who have fallen asleep in Jesus. |
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1 Thessalonians 4:15
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For this we say to you by the word of the Lord,
that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord, will not precede
those who have fallen asleep. |
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1 Thessalonians 4:16
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For the Lord Himself will descend from heaven
with a shout, with the voice of the archangel and with the trumpet of God, and
the dead in Christ will rise first. |
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1 Thessalonians 4:17
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Then we who are alive and remain will be caught
up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so we shall
always be with the Lord. |
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1 Thessalonians 4:18
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Therefore comfort one another with these words. |
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