The Holy Bible, English Standard Version

1 Thessalonians 4:3-5
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For this is the will of God, your sanctification: [1] that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body [2] in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;

Footnotes

[1] 4:3 Or your holiness
[2] 4:4 Or how to take a wife for himself; Greek how to possess his own vessel

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