1 THESSALONIANS 4:3 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:”
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality — sanctification (hagiasmos) is not mere feeling but active separation from porneía (sexual transgression). God's will is not obscure but crystalline: sexual purity is non-negotiable. The foundation of sanctity is the body's consecration to God.
Church Fathers on 1 Thessalonians 4:3
When he has met what was pressing, and what was upon his hands, and is about henceforth to enter upon things that are perpetual, and which they ought continually to hear, he adds this expression, “finally,” that is, always and forever. “We beseech and exhort you in the Lord.” Strange! He does not even speak of himself as of sufficient credit to exhort. And yet who was so worthy of credit? But he takes Christ along with him. We exhort you, he says, by God. Which also he said…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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