1 Thessalonians 4:7
For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
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Cross references
- Leviticus 11:44 For I am Yahweh your God. Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am holy. You shall not defile yourselves with any kind of creeping thing that moves on the earth.
- 1 Peter 2:9–11 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. In the past, you were not a people, but now are God’s people, who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy. Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims to abstain from fleshly lusts which war against the soul,
- Ephesians 1:4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we would be holy and without defect before him in love,