| 1 Thessalonians 4:7 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but in sanctification. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | God didn't call us to be sexually immoral but to be holy.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. |
| ASV: | For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification. |
| BBE: | Because it is God's purpose that our way of life may be not unclean but holy. |
| DBY: | For God has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification. |
| ERV: | For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification. |
| WEY: | God has not called us to an unclean life, but to one of purity. |
| WBS: | For God hath not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness. |
| WEB: | For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification. |
| YLT: | for God did not call us on uncleanness, but in sanctification; |
| 1 Thessalonians 4:7 Cross References |
| XREF: | 1 Thessalonians 2:3 For our exhortation does not come from error or impurity or by way of deceit;
1 Peter 1:15 but like the Holy One who called you, be holy yourselves also in all your behavior; (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| PNT: | 4:7 Unto holiness. The Christian calling demands purity of life. |
| MHC: | 4:1-8 To abide in the faith of the gospel is not enough, we must abound in the work of faith. The rule according to which all ought to walk and act, is the commandments given by the Lord Jesus Christ. Sanctification, in the renewal of their souls under the influences of the Holy Spirit, and attention to appointed duties, constituted the will of God respecting them. In aspiring after this renewal of the soul unto holiness, strict restraint must be put upon the appetites and senses of the body, and on the thoughts and inclinations of the will, which lead to wrong uses of them. The Lord calls none into his family to live unholy lives, but that they may be taught and enabled to walk before him in holiness. Some make light of the precepts of holiness, because they hear them from men; but they are God's commands, and to break them is to despise God. |
| CONC: | God's Holiness Holy Impurity Purity Purpose Sanctification Unclean Uncleanness |
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