For God has not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness. Treasury of Scripture God. Leviticus 11:44 For I am the LORD your God: you shall therefore sanctify yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I am holy... Leviticus 19:2 Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say to them, You shall be holy: for I the LORD your God am holy. Romans 1:7 To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ. Romans 8:29,30 For whom he did foreknow, he also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of his Son... 1 Corinthians 1:2 To the church of God which is at Corinth, to them that are sanctified in Christ Jesus, called to be saints... Ephesians 1:4 According as he has chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: Ephesians 2:10 For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them. Ephesians 4:1 I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation with which you are called, 2 Thessalonians 2:13,14 But we are bound to give thanks always to God for you, brothers beloved of the Lord... 2 Timothy 1:9 Who has saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace... Hebrews 12:14 Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shall see the Lord: 1 Peter 1:14-16 As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance... 1 Peter 2:9-12,21,22 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people... uncleanness. 1 Thessalonians 2:3 For our exhortation was not of deceit, nor of uncleanness, nor in guile: Galatians 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Ephesians 4:19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 2 Peter 2:10 But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, self-willed...
Context Live to Please God
1Furthermore then we beseech you, brothers, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as you have received of us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more and more. 2For you know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. 3For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication: 4That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor; 5Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: 6That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. 7For God has not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness. 8He therefore that despises, despises not man, but God, who has also given to us his holy Spirit. 9But as touching brotherly love you need not that I write to you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another. 10And indeed you do it toward all the brothers which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brothers, that you increase more and more; 11And that you study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; 12That you may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that you may have lack of nothing. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto sanctification.
Darby Bible Translation
For God has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.
King James Bible
For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
Young's Literal Translation
for God did not call us on uncleanness, but in sanctification;
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