1 Thessalonians 4:3
Douay-Rheims
For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that you should abstain from fornication;
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown
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).
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1871 · 1Thess 4:3
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