1 Thessalonians 4:3

1 Thessalonians 4:3

Plea for Purity

1 Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus ^athat you should abound more and more, ^bjust as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God;

2 for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

3 For this is ^athe will of God, ^byour sanctification: ^cthat you should abstain from sexual immorality;

4 ^athat each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

5 ^anot in passion of lust, ^blike the Gentiles ^cwho do not know God;

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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Your sanctification (o agiasmov umwn). Found only in the Greek Bible and ecclesiastical writers from agiazw and both to take the place of the old words agizw, agismov with their technical ideas of consecration to a god or goddess that did not include holiness in life. So Paul makes a sharp and pointed stand here for the Christian idea of sanctification as being "the will of God" (apposition) and as further explained by the epexegetic infinitive

that ye abstain from fornication (apexesqai umav apo thv porneiav). Pagan religion did not demand sexual purity of its devotees, the gods and goddesses being grossly immoral. Priestesses were in the temples for the service of the men who came.

**Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 1 Thessalonians 4:3:**

Romans 6:19
1 Corinthians 1:30
1 Thessalonians 5:22
2 Thessalonians 1:8
1 Peter 2:11

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