1 Thessalonians 4:4

Webster's Bible (1833)

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 don't have self-control, let them marry. For it's better to marry than to burn.
  • 1 Pet 3:7 : 7 You husbands, in like manner, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.
  • Rom 12:1 : 1 Therefore I urge you, brothers, 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 Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!
  • 1 Cor 7:2 : 2 But, because of sexual immoralities, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.
  • Heb 13:4 : 4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.
  • 1 Cor 6:18-20 : 18 Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body. 19 Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own, 20 for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
  • 2 Cor 4:7 : 7 But we have this treasure in clay vessels, that the exceeding greatness of the power may be of God, and not from ourselves.
  • 1 Sam 21:5 : 5 David answered the priest, and said to 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 today shall their vessels be holy?
  • Acts 9:15 : 15 But the Lord said to him, "Go your way, for he is my chosen vessel to bear my name before the nations and kings, and the children of Israel.
  • Rom 1:24 : 24 Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,
  • Rom 6:19 : 19 I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.
  • Rom 9:21-23 : 21 Or hasn't the potter a right over the clay, from the same lump to make one part a vessel for honor, and another for dishonor? 22 What if God, willing to show his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much patience vessels of wrath made for destruction, 23 and that he might make known the riches of his glory on vessels of mercy, which he prepared beforehand for glory,
  • Phil 4:8 : 8 Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honorable, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report; if there is any virtue, and if there is any praise, think about 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 clay. Some are for honor, and some for dishonor. 21 If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master's use, prepared for every good work.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 1 Thess 4:1-3
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    1 Finally then, brothers, we beg and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God, that you abound more and more.

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

    3 For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

  • 1 Thess 4:5-7
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    5 not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don't know God;

    6 that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

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

  • 1 Cor 6:18-20
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    18 Flee sexual immorality! "Every sin that a man does is outside the body," but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

    19 Or don't you know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit which is in you, which you have from God? You are not your own,

    20 for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.

  • 1 Cor 7:1-2
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    1 Now concerning the things about which you wrote to me: it is good for a man not to touch a woman.

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

  • 1 Thess 4:11-12
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    11 and that you make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, even as we charged you;

    12 that you may walk properly toward those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.

  • 1 Cor 7:4-5
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    4 The wife doesn't have authority over her own body, but the husband. Likewise also the husband doesn't have authority over his own body, but the wife.

    5 Don't deprive one another, unless it is by consent for a season, that you may give yourselves to fasting and prayer, and may be together again, that Satan doesn't tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

  • 1 Cor 6:15-16
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    15 Don't you know that your bodies are members of Christ? Shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them members of a prostitute? May it never be!

    16 Or don't you know that he who is joined to a prostitute is one body? For, "The two," says he, "will become one flesh."

  • Heb 13:4
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    4 Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled: but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

  • 2 Tim 2:21
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    21 If anyone therefore purges himself from these, he will be a vessel for honor, sanctified, and suitable for the master's use, prepared for every good work.

  • 1 Cor 3:16-17
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    16 Don't you know that you are a temple of God, and that God's Spirit lives in you?

    17 If anyone destroys the temple of God, God will destroy him; for God's temple is holy, which you are.

  • 1 Cor 7:35
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    35 This I say for your own profit; not that I may ensnare you, but for that which is appropriate, and that you may attend to the Lord without distraction.

  • Eph 5:3-4
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    3 But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

    4 nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.

  • 1 Pet 4:2
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    2 that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

  • 1 Thess 5:23
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    23 May the God of peace himself sanctify you completely. May your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

  • 1 Cor 7:24
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    24 Brothers, let each man, in whatever condition he was called, stay in that condition with God.

  • Titus 2:4-5
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    4 that 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 God's word may not be blasphemed.

  • 1 Pet 4:4
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    4 They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:

  • 1 Pet 1:14-15
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    14 as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

    15 but just as he who called you is holy, you yourselves also be holy in all of your behavior;

  • Eph 4:17
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    17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

  • 1 Cor 7:37
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    37 But he who stands steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but has power over his own heart, to keep his own virgin, does well.

  • 1 Tim 4:5
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    5 For it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.

  • 1 Tim 3:4-5
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    4 one who rules his own house well, having children in subjection with all reverence;

    5 (but if a man doesn't know how to rule his own house, how will he take care of the assembly of God?)

  • Rom 1:24
    69%

    24 Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,

  • 1 Pet 3:2
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    2 seeing your pure behavior in fear.

  • Eph 5:17
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    17 Therefore don't be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

  • 1 Cor 5:1
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    1 It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles, that one has his father's wife.

  • 2 Pet 1:6
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    6 and in knowledge, self-control; and in self-control patience; and in patience godliness;

  • 1 Pet 3:7
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    7 You husbands, in like manner, live with your wives according to knowledge, giving honor to the woman, as to the weaker vessel, as being also joint heirs of the grace of life; that your prayers may not be hindered.

  • Eph 5:33
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    33 Nevertheless each of you must also love his own wife even as himself; and let the wife see that she respects her husband.

  • Col 3:5
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    5 Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

  • 1 Tim 4:3
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    3 forbidding marriage and commanding to abstain from foods which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth.

  • Col 1:10
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    10 that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;

  • 1 Tim 4:12
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    12 Let no man despise your youth; but be an example to those who believe, in word, in your way of life, in love, in spirit, in faith, and in purity.

  • Eph 5:28
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    28 Even so ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself.

  • 1 Cor 7:7
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    7 Yet I wish that all men were like me. However each man has his own gift from God, one of this kind, and another of that kind.