Winning the Purity Battle

1 Thessalonians 4:3–8 HCSB

For this is God’s will, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality, so that each of you knows how to control his own body in sanctification and honor, not with lustful desires, like the Gentiles who don’t know God. This means one must not transgress against and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger of all these offenses, as we also previously told and warned you. For God has not called us to impurity but to sanctification. Therefore, the person who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who also gives you His Holy Spirit.

Self Control

1 Thessalonians 4:4 HCSB

so that each of you knows how to control his own body in sanctification and honor,

Counter Cultural

1 Thessalonians 4:5 HCSB

not with lustful desires, like the Gentiles who don’t know God.

Other’s Focused

1 Thessalonians 4:6 HCSB

This means one must not transgress against and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger of all these offenses, as we also previously told and warned you.

Spiritually Minded

1 Thessalonians 4:7–8 HCSB

For God has not called us to impurity but to sanctification. Therefore, the person who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who also gives you His Holy Spirit.