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;
6 that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord ais the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified.
7 For God did not call us to uncleanness, abut in holiness.
8 aTherefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, bwho has also given us His Holy Spirit.
A Brotherly and Orderly Life
9 But concerning brotherly love you have no need that I should write to you, for ayou yourselves are taught by God bto love one another;
10 and indeed you do so toward all the brethren who are in all Macedonia. But we urge you, brethren, athat you increase more and more;
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Lust {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
Lust {International Standard Bible Encyclopedia}
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Passion {Easton's Bible Dictionary}
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