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1 Tesalonika 4:3

Karena inilah kehendak Allah: pengudusanmu, yaitu supaya kamu menjauhi percabulan,

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Chastity;   Commandments;   Holiness;   Sanctification;   Word of God;   Thompson Chain Reference - Abstain;   Asceticism;   Chastity;   Chastity-Impurity;   Fornication;   Purity;   Sanctification;   Self-Indulgence-Self-Denial;   Social Duties;   The Topic Concordance - Defrauding;   Despisement;   Sexual Activities;   Teaching;   Vengeance;   Will of God;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Chastity;   Sanctification;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Thessalonians, Epistle to the 1 and 2;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Adultery;   Fornication;   Sanctification;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Abstain, Abstinence;   Lust;   Marriage;   Sanctification;   Thessalonians, First and Second, Theology of;   Touch;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Sanctification;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Thessalonians, the Epistles to the;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ethics;   Fornication;   Immorality;   Marriage;   Sanctification;   Sex, Biblical Teaching on;   1 Thessalonians;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Marriage;   Thessalonians, First Epistle to the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Abstinence;   Acceptance;   Fornication ;   Marriage;   Perseverance;   Sanctification;   Thessalonians Epistles to the;   Virtue;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - 6 Holiness Sanctification;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Crime;   Sanctification;   Thessalonians, the First Epistle of Paul to the;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for December 29;   My Utmost for His Highest - Devotion for July 22;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Karena inilah kehendak Allah: pengudusanmu, yaitu supaya kamu menjauhi percabulan,
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Karena demikian inilah kehendak Allah, yaitu hendaklah kamu menjadi suci; sebab itu wajiblah kamu menjauhkan dirimu daripada zinah;

Contextual Overview

1 Furthermore we besech you brethren, & exhorte you by the Lorde Iesus, that ye encrease more and more, as ye haue receaued of vs, how ye ought to walke and to please God. 2 For ye knowe what commaundementes we gaue you by the Lorde Iesus. 3 For this is the wyll of God, your holynesse, that ye should abstayne from fornication: 4 That euery one of you should knowe how to possesse his vessell in holynesse and honour: 5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, euen as the gentiles, which knowe not God. 6 That no man oppresse and defraude his brother in [any] matter, because that the Lorde is the auenger of all suche: as we also haue forewarned you, and testified. 7 For God hath not called vs vnto vncleanenesse, but into holynesse. 8 He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath geuen to you his holy spirite.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

this: 1 Thessalonians 5:18, Psalms 40:8, Psalms 143:10, Matthew 7:21, Matthew 12:50, Mark 3:35, John 4:34, John 7:17, Romans 12:2, Ephesians 5:17, Ephesians 6:6, Colossians 1:9, Colossians 4:12, Hebrews 10:36, Hebrews 13:21, 1 Peter 4:2, 1 John 2:17

your: 1 Thessalonians 4:4, 1 Thessalonians 5:23, John 17:17-19, Acts 20:32, Acts 26:18, Romans 6:22,*Gr: 1 Corinthians 1:30, 1 Corinthians 6:11, Ephesians 5:26, Ephesians 5:27, 2 Thessalonians 2:13, Titus 2:14, 1 Peter 1:2

that: Matthew 15:19, Acts 15:20, Acts 15:29, Romans 1:29, 1 Corinthians 5:9-11, 1 Corinthians 6:9, 1 Corinthians 6:10, 1 Corinthians 6:13-18, 1 Corinthians 7:2, 2 Corinthians 12:21, Galatians 5:19, Ephesians 5:3-5, Colossians 3:5, Hebrews 12:16, Hebrews 13:4, Revelation 21:8, Revelation 22:15,*Gr.

Reciprocal: Leviticus 15:18 - unclean Leviticus 20:7 - General 1 Samuel 21:5 - the vessels Ezekiel 33:9 - if thou Matthew 6:10 - Thy will Romans 13:13 - chambering 1 Corinthians 5:11 - fornicator 1 Peter 1:15 - so 1 Peter 2:15 - so

Cross-References

Genesis 4:1
And Adam knewe Heua his wyfe, who conceauing bare Cain, saying: I haue gotten a man of the Lorde.
Genesis 4:11
And nowe art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receaue thy brothers blood from thy hande.
Numbers 18:12
Al the fat of the oyle, & al the fat of the wine, & of the wheate, which they shall offer vnto the Lorde for first fruites, the same haue I geuen vnto thee.
1 Kings 17:7
And it chaunced after a while that the brooke dryed vp, because there fell no rayne vpon the earth.
Nehemiah 13:6
But in all this time was not I at Hierusalem: for in the two and thirtie yere of Artaxerxes king of Babylon, came I vnto the king, & after certayne dayes obtayned I licence of the king to come to Hierusalem.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification,.... Which is another reason to enforce the above exhortation. "Sanctification" is internal or external. Internal sanctification is the work of the Spirit of God, and is a principle of spiritual life in the soul, a divine and spiritual light in the understanding, a flexion of the will to the will of God, and a settlement of the affections on divine things, and is an implantation of every grace in the heart. External sanctification arises from this, and lies in holiness of life and conversation; and is what is chiefly designed, as appears both by what goes before, and follows after: and this is "the will of God"; the will of his purpose and decree; for in the same decree that he wills the salvation of any by Jesus Christ, he also wills their sanctification in heart and life, and here and hereafter: and this is his approving will, or what is well pleasing in his sight, being agreeable to his nature, and divine perfections, particularly his holiness, in which he is glorious; and it is his will of command, and what he requires in his law, which is holy, just, and good, and perfectly agrees with the sound doctrine of the Gospel, and the revelation of his will in both.

That ye should abstain from fornication: which is particularly mentioned, abstinence from it being a branch of external holiness; and because that this sin was common among the Gentiles, and not esteemed a sin by them; as also to observe to these Christians, that as simple fornication was not to be allowed of, much less other acts of uncleanness, as adultery, incest, sodomy, and the like, which were iniquities that greatly prevailed among the Heathens. The Syriac version renders it, "from all fornication"; on this subject the apostle enlarges in some following verses.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification - It is the will or command of God that you should be holy. This does not refer to the purpose or decree of God, and does not mean that he intended to make them holy - but it means that it was his command that they should be holy. It was also true that it was agreeable to the divine will or purpose that they should be holy, and that he meant to use such an influence as to secure this; but this is not the truth taught here. This text, therefore, should not be brought as a proof that God intends to make his people holy, or that they are sanctified. It is a proof only that he requires holiness. The word here rendered “sanctification” - ἁγιασμὸς hagiasmos - is not used in the Greek classics, but is several times found in the New Testament. It is rendered holiness, Romans 6:19, Rom 6:22; 1 Thessalonians 4:7; 1 Timothy 2:15; Hebrews 12:14; and sanctification, 1 Corinthians 1:30; 1Th 4:3-4; 2 Thessalonians 2:13, and 1 Peter 1:2; see the Romans 6:19 note; 1 Corinthians 1:30 note. It means here “purity of life,” and particularly abstinence from those vices which debase and degrade the soul Sanctification consists in two things:

(1) In “ceasing to do evil;” and,

(2) In “learning to do well.” Or in other words, the first work of sanctification is in overcoming the propensities to evil in our nature, and checking and subduing the unholy habits which we had formed before we became Christians; the second part of the work consists in cultivating the positive principles of holiness in the soul.

That ye should abstain from fornication - A vice which was freely indulged among the pagan, and to which, from that fact, and from their own former habits, they were particularly exposed. On the fact that they were thus exposed, and on the reasons for these solemn commands on the subject, see the Acts 15:20 note, and 1 Corinthians 6:18 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Thessalonians 4:3. This is the will of God, even your sanctification — God has called you to holiness; he requires that you should be holy; for without holiness none can see the Lord. This is the general calling, but in it many particulars are included. Some of these he proceeds to mention; and it is very likely that these had been points on which he gave them particular instructions while among them.

That ye should abstain from fornication — The word πορνεια, as we have seen in other places, includes all sorts of uncleanness; and it was probably this consideration that induced several MSS., some versions and fathers, to add here πασης, all. Directions of this kind were peculiarly necessary among the Greeks, and indeed heathens in general, who were strongly addicted to such vices.


 
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