◄ 1 Thessalonians 4:4 ►
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Good News Translation
Each of you should know how to live with your wife in a holy and honorable way,

New Revised Standard Version
that each one of you know how to control your own body in holiness and honor,

Contemporary English Version
Respect and honor your wife.

New American Bible
that each of you know how to acquire a wife for himself in holiness and honor,

Douay-Rheims Bible
That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour,

should.

Romans 6:19 I speak an human thing, because of the infirmity of your flesh. For as you have yielded your members to serve uncleanness and iniquity, unto iniquity: so now yield your members to serve justice, unto sanctification.

Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercy of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing unto God, your reasonable service.

1 Corinthians 6:15,18-20 Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid! . . .

his.

1 Samuel 21:5 And David answered the priest, and said to him: Truly, as to what concerneth women, we have refrained ourselves from yesterday and the day before, when we came out, and the vessels of the young men were holy. Now this way is defiled, but it shall also be sanctified this day in the vessels.

Acts 9:15 And the Lord said to him: Go thy way: for this man is to me a vessel of election, to carry my name before the Gentiles and kings and the children of Israel.

Romans 9:21-23 Or hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump, to make one vessel unto honour and another unto dishonour? . . .

2 Timothy 2:20,21 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth: and some indeed unto honour, but some unto dishonour. . . .

1 Peter 3:7 Ye husbands, likewise dwelling with them according to knowledge, giving honour to the female as to the weaker vessel and as to the co-heirs of the grace of life: that your prayers be not hindered.

honour.

Philippians 4:8 For the rest, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever modest, whatsoever just, whatsoever holy, whatsoever lovely, whatsoever of good fame, if there be any virtue, if any praise of discipline: think on these things.

Hebrews 13:4 Marriage honourable in all, and the bed undefiled. For fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

Context
Living to Please God
…3For this is the will of God, your sanctification: That you should abstain from fornication: 4That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour, 5Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles that know not God:…
Cross References
1 Samuel 21:5
And David answered the priest, and said to him: Truly, as to what concerneth women, we have refrained ourselves from yesterday and the day before, when we came out, and the vessels of the young men were holy. Now this way is defiled, but it shall also be sanctified this day in the vessels.

Romans 1:24
Wherefore, God gave them up to the desires of their heart, unto uncleanness: to dishonour their own bodies among themselves.

1 Corinthians 7:2
But for fear of fornication, let every man have his own wife: and let every woman have her own husband.

1 Corinthians 7:9
But if they do not contain themselves, let them marry. For it is better to marry than to be burnt.

2 Corinthians 4:7
But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency may be of the power of God and not of us.

1 Peter 3:7
Ye husbands, likewise dwelling with them according to knowledge, giving honour to the female as to the weaker vessel and as to the co-heirs of the grace of life: that your prayers be not hindered.

1 Thessalonians 4:3
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