1 Thessalonians 4:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

1 Thessalonians 4:3 —

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Cross-References

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1 Peter 4:2
That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
Romans 12:2
And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
1 Thessalonians 5:23
And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Ephesians 5:17
Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-8)

Here we have, I. An exhortation to abound in holiness, to abound more and more in that which is good, 1 Thess. 4:1, 2. We may observe, 1. The manner in which the exhortation is given—very affectionately. The apostle entreats them as brethren; he calls them so, and loved them as such. Because his love to them was very great, he exhorts them very earnestly: We beseech and exhort you. The apostle was…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. For--enforcing the assertion that his “commandments” were “by (the authority of) the Lord Jesus” (1Th 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 (Ac 15:20).