1 Thessalonians 4:3

Greek/English Interlinear with Strong’s Numbers


King James Version

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

For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality;
New American Standard Bible

For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that is, that you abstain from sexual immorality (fornication);
New International Version

It is God’s will that you should be sanctified; that you should avoid sexual immorality;
The Amplified Bible

For this is the will of God, that you should be consecrated (separated and set apart for pure and holy living): that you should abstain and shrink from all sexual vice,
Wuest’s Expanded Translation

for this is the will of God, your being set apart [from sin to holiness], that you should hold yourselves off from fornication;
Phillips’ Modern English

God’s plan is to make you holy, and that means a clean cut with sexual immorality.
Williams’ Language of the People

For it is God’s will that you should be pure in person, that you should practice abstinence from sexual immorality,
 
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