1 Thessalonians 4:3

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τοῦτο γάρ ἐστιν θέλημα τοῦ Θεοῦ, ὁ ἁγιασμὸς ὑμῶν, ἀπέχεσθαι ὑμᾶς ἀπὸ τῆς πορνείας:

Transliteration

This for estin thelēma of the Theou, the hagiasmos of you, to apechesthai you from the porneias:

Grammar Details

• *estin*: present, indicative, active, 3rd person, singular - is
• *thelēma*: nominative, neuter, singular - will/desire
• *Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - God's (possessive)
• *hagiasmos*: nominative, masculine, singular - sanctification/holiness
• *apechesthai*: present, infinitive, middle - to abstain/keep away from
• *porneias*: genitive, feminine, singular - sexual immorality/fornication

Word Meanings

• *thelēma*: will/desire/purpose/intention
• *hagiasmos*: sanctification/holiness/consecration/purification
• *apechesthai*: abstain/keep away/refrain
• *porneias*: sexual immorality/fornication/prostitution/unchastity

Referenced Verses

• 1 Pet 4:2 : 2 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
• 1 Thess 5:23 : 23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Eph 5:17 : 17 Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
• Col 3:5 : 5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
• Eph 6:6 : 6 Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers; but as the servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;
• 1 Thess 4:4 : 4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
• Rom 12:2 : 2 And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
• Ps 40:8 : 8 I delight{H8804)} to do{H8800)} thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.
• 2 Thess 2:13 : 13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
• Eph 5:3-5 : 3 But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints; 4 Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks. 5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
• 1 Pet 1:2 : 2 Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.
• Heb 13:4 : 4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
• Eph 5:26-27 : 26 That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27 That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
• Rom 6:22 : 22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
• Gal 5:19 : 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
• Matt 7:21 : 21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
• John 17:17-19 : 17 Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. 18 As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. 19 And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.
• Acts 15:20 : 20 But that we write unto them, that they abstain from pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from things strangled, and from blood.
• Acts 15:29 : 29 That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well.
• Acts 20:32 : 32 And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
• Acts 26:18 : 18 To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.
• Matt 12:50 : 50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.
• Matt 15:19 : 19 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
• Mark 3:35 : 35 For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.
• John 4:34 : 34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work.
• Ps 143:10 : 10 Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
• 1 Cor 1:30 : 30 But of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption:
• 1 Cor 6:9-9 : 9 {G2228} Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
• 1 Cor 6:13-18 : 13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body. 14 And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power. 15 Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid. 16 What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh. 17 But he that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit. 18 Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.
• 1 Cor 7:2 : 2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
• 2 Cor 12:21 : 21 And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.
• Col 1:9 : 9 For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
• Heb 10:36 : 36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
• 1 John 2:17 : 17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
• Rev 21:8 : 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
• Rev 22:15 : 15 For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
• Heb 12:16 : 16 Lest there be any fornicator, or profane person, as Esau, who for one morsel of meat sold his birthright.
• Heb 13:21 : 21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.
• Titus 2:14 : 14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
• 1 Thess 5:18 : 18 In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.
• Col 4:12 : 12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.
• 1 Cor 5:9-9 : 9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: 10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world. 11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
• John 7:17 : 17 If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself.
• Rom 1:29 : 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers,