1 Thessalonians 4:4

American Standard Version (1901)

that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

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Referenced Verses

  • 1 Cor 7:9 : 9 But if they have not continency, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.
  • 1 Pet 3:7 : 7 Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with [your wives] according to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.
  • Rom 12:1 : 1 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, [which is] your spiritual service.
  • 1 Cor 6:15 : 15 Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid.
  • 1 Cor 7:2 : 2 But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 [ Let] marriage [be] had in honor among all, and [let] the bed [be] undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
  • 1 Cor 6:18-20 : 18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body. 19 Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own; 20 for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.
  • 2 Cor 4:7 : 7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves;
  • 1 Sam 21:5 : 5 And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days; when I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was but a common journey; how much more then to-day shall their vessels be holy?
  • Acts 9:15 : 15 But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles and kings, and the children of Israel:
  • Rom 1:24 : 24 Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves:
  • Rom 6:19 : 19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye presented your members [as] servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, even so now present your members [as] servants to righteousness unto sanctification.
  • Rom 9:21-23 : 21 Or hath not the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel unto honor, and another unto dishonor? 22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering vessels of wrath fitted unto destruction: 23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he afore prepared unto glory,
  • Phil 4:8 : 8 Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honorable, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.
  • 2 Tim 2:20-21 : 20 Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some unto honor, and some unto dishonor. 21 If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, meet for the master's use, prepared unto every good work.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Thess 4:1-3
    3 verses
    85%

    1Finally then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that, as ye received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, even as ye do walk,--that ye abound more and more.

    2For ye know what charge we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

    3For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;

  • 1 Thess 4:5-7
    3 verses
    81%

    5not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;

    6that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in the matter: because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

    7For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

  • 1 Cor 6:18-20
    3 verses
    76%

    18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

    19Or know ye not that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which ye have from God? and ye are not your own;

    20for ye were bought with a price: glorify God therefore in your body.

  • 1 Cor 7:1-2
    2 verses
    76%

    1Now concerning the things whereof ye wrote: It is good for a man not to touch a woman.

    2But, because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

  • 1 Thess 4:11-12
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    73%

    11and that ye study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your hands, even as we charged you;

    12that ye may walk becomingly toward them that are without, and may have need of nothing.

  • 1 Cor 7:4-5
    2 verses
    72%

    4The wife hath not power over her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power over his own body, but the wife.

    5Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

  • 1 Cor 6:15-16
    2 verses
    72%

    15Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid.

    16Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.

  • Heb 13:4
    72%

    4[ Let] marriage [be] had in honor among all, and [let] the bed [be] undefiled: for fornicators and adulterers God will judge.

  • 2 Tim 2:21
    72%

    21If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, meet for the master's use, prepared unto every good work.

  • 1 Cor 3:16-17
    2 verses
    71%

    16Know ye not that ye are a temple of God, and [that] the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

    17If any man destroyeth the temple of God, him shall God destroy; for the temple of God is holy, and such are ye.

  • 1 Cor 7:35
    71%

    35And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is seemly, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

  • Eph 5:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

    4nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks.

  • 1 Pet 4:2
    70%

    2that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

  • 1 Thess 5:23
    70%

    23And the God of peace himself sanctify you wholly; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • 1 Cor 7:24
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    24Brethren, let each man, wherein he was called, therein abide with God.

  • Titus 2:4-5
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    70%

    4that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

    5[ to be] sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed:

  • 1 Pet 4:4
    70%

    4wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of [you] :

  • 1 Pet 1:14-15
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    70%

    14as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in [the time of] your ignorance:

    15but like as he who called you is holy, be ye yourselves also holy in all manner of living;

  • Eph 4:17
    70%

    17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind,

  • 1 Cor 7:37
    69%

    37But he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power as touching in his own heart, to keep his own virgin [daughter], shall do well.

  • 1 Tim 4:5
    69%

    5for it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.

  • 1 Tim 3:4-5
    2 verses
    69%

    4one that ruleth well his own house, having [his] children in subjection with all gravity;

    5(but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

  • Rom 1:24
    69%

    24Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves:

  • 1 Pet 3:2
    68%

    2beholding your chaste behavior [coupled] with fear.

  • Eph 5:17
    68%

    17Wherefore be ye not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

  • 1 Cor 5:1
    68%

    1It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one [of you] hath his father's wife.

  • 2 Pet 1:6
    68%

    6and in [your] knowledge self-control; and in [your] self-control patience; and in [your] patience godliness;

  • 1 Pet 3:7
    68%

    7Ye husbands, in like manner, dwell with [your wives] according to knowledge, giving honor unto the woman, as unto the weaker vessel, as being also joint-heirs of the grace of life; to the end that your prayers be not hindered.

  • Eph 5:33
    68%

    33Nevertheless do ye also severally love each one his own wife even as himself; and [let] the wife [see] that she fear her husband.

  • Col 3:5
    68%

    5Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

  • 1 Tim 4:3
    68%

    3forbidding to marry, [and commanding] to abstain from meats, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by them that believe and know the truth.

  • Col 1:10
    68%

    10to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

  • 1 Tim 4:12
    68%

    12Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an ensample to them that believe, in word, in manner of life, in love, in faith, in purity.

  • Eph 5:28
    68%

    28Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself:

  • 1 Cor 7:7
    68%

    7Yet I would that all men were even as I myself. Howbeit each man hath his own gift from God, one after this manner, and another after that.