1 Thessalonians 4:3
Modern Translations
New International Version
It is God's will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;

New Living Translation
God’s will is for you to be holy, so stay away from all sexual sin.

English Standard Version
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality;

Berean Study Bible
For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;

New American Standard Bible
For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality;

NASB 1995
For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality;

NASB 1977
For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality;

Amplified Bible
For this is the will of God, that you be sanctified [separated and set apart from sin]: that you abstain and back away from sexual immorality;

Christian Standard Bible
For this is God’s will, your sanctification: that you keep away from sexual immorality,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For this is God's will, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality,

Contemporary English Version
God wants you to be holy, so don't be immoral in matters of sex.

Good News Translation
God wants you to be holy and completely free from sexual immorality.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
It is God's will that you keep away from sexual sin as a mark of your devotion to him.

International Standard Version
For it is God's will that you be sanctified: You must abstain from sexual immorality.

NET Bible
For this is God's will: that you become holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality,
Classic Translations
King James Bible
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

New King James Version
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality;

King James 2000 Bible
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication:

New Heart English Bible
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

World English Bible
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

American King James Version
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication:

American Standard Version
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;

A Faithful Version
Because this is the will of God--even your sanctification--that you abstain from fornication,

Darby Bible Translation
For this is [the] will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;

English Revised Version
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;

Webster's Bible Translation
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from lewdness.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
For this is the will of God euen your sanctification, and that ye should abstaine from fornication,

Bishops' Bible of 1568
For this is the wyll of God, your holynesse, that ye should abstayne from fornication:

Coverdale Bible of 1535
For this is the will of God, euen youre sanctifienge, that ye shulde absteyne from whordome,

Tyndale Bible of 1526
For this is the will of god even that ye shuld be holy and that ye shuld abstayne from fornicacion
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
for this is the will of God—your sanctification: that you abstain from the whoredom,

Berean Literal Bible
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: You are to abstain from sexual immorality;

Young's Literal Translation
for this is the will of God -- your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

Smith's Literal Translation
For this is the will of God, your consecration, that ye should keep away from fornication:

Literal Emphasis Translation
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: you are to abstain away from fornication;

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that you should abstain from fornication;

Catholic Public Domain Version
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from fornication,

Translations from Aramaic
Aramaic Bible in Plain English
For this is the will of God: your holiness, and that you be separate from all fornication,

Lamsa Bible
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication:

NT Translations
Anderson New Testament
For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you keep yourselves from lewdness;

Godbey New Testament
For this is the will of God, your sanctification, that you abstain from fornication;

Haweis New Testament
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from whoredom;

Mace New Testament
and such is the will of God, that you should be holy, and avoid licentiousness;

Weymouth New Testament
For this is God's will--your purity of life, that you abstain from fornication;

Worrell New Testament
For this is the will of God?even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;

Worsley New Testament
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification: that ye should abstain from fornication,
















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