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1 Thessalonians 4:4

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That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

That every one {G1538} of you {G5216} should know {G1492} how to possess {G2932} his {G1438} vessel {G4632} in {G1722} sanctification {G38} and {G2532} honour {G5092};

that each of you know how to manage his sexual impulses in a holy and honorable manner,

each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,

that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

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Cross-References

  • 1 Corinthians 7:9 (9 votes)

    But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

  • Romans 12:1 (6 votes)

    ¶ I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, [which is] your reasonable service.

  • Hebrews 13:4 (5 votes)

    Marriage [is] honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

  • 1 Corinthians 6:15 (5 votes)

    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.

  • 1 Peter 3:7 (5 votes)

    Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with [them] according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.

  • 1 Corinthians 7:2 (4 votes)

    Nevertheless, [to avoid] fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

  • Acts 9:15 (3 votes)

    But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel: