Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in 1 Thessalonians 4:3

“For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:”

1 Thessalonians 4:3 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in 1 Thessalonians 4:3, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of 1 Thessalonians 4. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.

2 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:

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

5 Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • 1 Peter 4:2That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.
  • Romans 12:2And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.
  • 1 Thessalonians 5:23And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • Hebrews 13:4Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
  • Colossians 3:5Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
  • Ephesians 5:17Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.
  • 1 Thessalonians 4:4That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
  • Ephesians 5:3But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
  • Galatians 5:19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
  • 1 John 2:17And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
  • 2 Thessalonians 2:13But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belie…
  • Revelation 21:8But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire …
  • Matthew 7:21Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.
  • John 17:17Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

More to meet God in 1 Thessalonians

1 Thessalonians 5:161 Thessalonians 5:171 Thessalonians 5:181 Thessalonians 1:51 Thessalonians 1:31 Thessalonians 4:61 Thessalonians 2:161 Thessalonians 1:101 Thessalonians 2:131 Thessalonians 5:121 Thessalonians 5:211 Thessalonians 5:151 Thessalonians 5:141 Thessalonians 4:1

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.