“For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,”
— WEB
1 Thessalonians 4:3
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“For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:”
— KJV
“For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;”
— ASV
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For--enforcing the assertion that his "commandments" were "by (the authority of) the Lord Jesus" (Th1 4:2). Since "this is the will of God," let it be your will also. fornication--not regarded as a sin at all among the heathen, and so needing the more to be denounced (Act 15:20).
— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)
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