1 Thessalonians 4:1-3

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

A Life Pleasing to God

4 Finally, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you learned from us how you ought to live and to please God, just as you are doing, you do so more and more. ²For you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus. ³For this is the will of God, your sanctification:^[a] that you abstain from immorality;^[b]

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Footnotes

4.3 sanctification: With special reference to the practice of purity, specially difficult to those newly converted from paganism.
4.3 immorality: i.e., sexual immorality.

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