1 Thessalonians 4:1 (ESV)

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1 Thessalonians 4:3 - For this is the will of God, your sanctification:[fn] that you abstain from sexual immorality;

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Translations for 1 Thessalonians 4:3

KJVKJV (read chapter in KJV)

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

NKJVNKJV (read chapter in NKJV)

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

NLTNLT (read chapter in NLT)

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

NIVNIV (read chapter in NIV)

It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality;

ESVESV (read chapter in ESV)

For this is the will of God, your sanctification:[fn] that you abstain from sexual immorality;

CSBCSB (read chapter in CSB)

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

NASB20NASB20 (read chapter in NASB20)

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

NASB95NASB95 (read chapter in NASB95)

For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from [fn]sexual immorality;

LSBLSB (read chapter in LSB)

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from [fn]sexual immorality;

AMPAMP (read chapter in AMP)

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;

NETNET (read chapter in NET)

For this is God's will: that you become holy, that you keep away from sexual immorality,

RSVRSV (read chapter in RSV)

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from unchastity;

ASVASV (read chapter in ASV)

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

YLTYLT (read chapter in YLT)

for this is the will of God -- your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,

DBYDBY (read chapter in DBY)

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

WEBWEB (read chapter in WEB)

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from lewdness.

HNVHNV (read chapter in HNV)

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

VULVUL (read chapter in VUL)

haec est enim voluntas Dei sanctificatio vestra

NAVNAV (read chapter in NAV)

فَإِنَّ مَشِيئَةَ اللهِ هِيَ هذِهِ: قَدَاسَتُكُمْ. وَذَلِكَ بِأَنْ تَمْتَنِعُوا عَنِ الزِّنَى،

MGNTMGNT (read chapter in MGNT)

τοῦτο γάρ ἐστιν θέλημα τοῦ θεοῦ ὁ ἁγιασμὸς ὑμῶν ἀπέχεσθαι ὑμᾶς ἀπὸ τῆς πορνείας

TRTR (read chapter in TR)

τοῦτο γάρ ἐστιν θέλημα τοῦ θεοῦ ὁ ἁγιασμὸς ὑμῶν ἀπέχεσθαι ὑμᾶς ἀπὸ τῆς πορνείας

SVDSVD (read chapter in SVD)

لأَنَّ هذِهِ هِيَ إِرَادَةُ اللهِ: قَدَاسَتُكُمْ. أَنْ تَمْتَنِعُوا عَنِ الزِّنَا،

RVR09RVR09 (read chapter in RVR09)

Porque la voluntad de Dios es vuestra santificación: que os apartéis de fornicación;

RVR60RVR60 (read chapter in RVR60)

pues la voluntad de Dios es vuestra santificación; que os apartéis de fornicación;

BBEBBE (read chapter in BBE)

For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh;

CHTCHT (read chapter in CHT)

神的旨意就是要你們成為聖潔、遠避淫行．

EMEM (read chapter in EM)

Porque ésta es la voluntad de Dios, vuestra santificación: que os apartéis de inmoralidad sexual;

KORKOR (read chapter in KOR)

하나님의 뜻은 이것이니 너희의 거룩함이라 곧 음란을 버리고

LSLS (read chapter in LS)

Ce que Dieu veut, c'est votre sanctification; c'est que vous vous absteniez de l'impudicité;

LUTLUT (read chapter in LUT)

Denn das ist der Wille Gottes, eure Heiligung, und daß ihr meidet die Hurerei

RSTRST (read chapter in RST)

Ибо воля Божия есть освящение ваше, чтобы вы воздерживались от блуда;

SESE (read chapter in SE)

Porque la voluntad de Dios es vuestra santificación; que os apartéis de fornicación;

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(4:3)

Or your holiness

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