1 Thessalonians 4:3 - Compare All Versions
1 Thessalonians 4:1-3 MSG (The Message)
One final word, friends. We ask you—urge is more like it—that you keep on doing what we told you to do to please God, not in a dogged religious plod, but in a living, spirited dance. You know the guidelines we laid out for you from the Master Jesus. God wants you to live a pure life. Keep yourselves from sexual promiscuity.
1 Thessalonians 4:3 KJV (King James Version)
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication
1 Thessalonians 4:3 NASB1995 (New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995)
For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality
1 Thessalonians 4:3 NCV (New Century Version)
God wants you to be holy and to stay away from sexual sins.
1 Thessalonians 4:3 ASV (American Standard Version)
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication
1 Thessalonians 4:3 NIV (New International Version)
It is God’s will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual immorality
1 Thessalonians 4:3 NKJV (New King James Version)
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality
1 Thessalonians 4:3 AMP (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
1 Thessalonians 4:3 NLT (New Living Translation)
God’s will is for you to be holy, so stay away from all sexual sin.
1 Thessalonians 4:3 TPT (The Passion Translation)
God’s will is for you to be set apart for him in holiness and that you keep yourselves unpolluted from sexual defilement.
1 Thessalonians 4:3 ESV (English Standard Version 2025)
For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality