1 Thessalonians 4:4 Cross References - Haweis

⁴ that every one of you may know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour,

¹⁵ But the Lord said unto him, Go: for this man is an elect vessel for me, to bear my name before nations, and kings, and the children of Israel:

²⁴ Wherefore God abandoned them, through the lusts of their own hearts, unto impurity, to dishonour their own bodies by themselves:

¹⁹ I speak humanly, because of the infirmity of your flesh: for as ye have presented your members servants to impurity and iniquity for iniquity; so now present your members servants to righteousness for holiness.

²¹ Hath not the potter power over the clay, from the same mass to make one vessel for an honourable use, and another for a dishonourable? ²² But what if God, willing to display his wrath, and to make known what is possible with him, hath borne with much long-suffering the vessels of wrath fitted for perdition: ²³ and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon the vessels of mercy which he had before prepared for glory:

¹ I BESEECH you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.

¹⁵ Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? Taking then the members of Christ, shall I make them members of an harlot? God forbid.

¹⁸ Flee whoredom. Every other sin which a man may commit is without the body; but he who committeth whoredom sinneth against his own body. ¹⁹ Do ye not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost, which is in you, which ye have from God, and ye are not your own? ²⁰ For ye have been bought with a price: glorify then God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

² But because of the whoredoms, let every man have his own wife, and every wife her own husband.

⁹ But if they have not the gift of continence, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

⁷ But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the transcendent excellence of the power might be of God, and not of us. ⁸ Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are serious, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are amiable, whatsoever things are laudable, if there be any virtue, or any thing praise-worthy, pay attention to these things.

²⁰ But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but also of wood and pottery; and some for an honourable use, and others for baser service. ²¹ If therefore a man preserve himself pure from these things, he shall be a vessel for honour, sanctified and highly useful to the master, ready for every good work.

⁴ Marriage is honourable for all persons, and the marriage bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

⁷ Ye husbands, in like manner dwell with them discreetly, putting respect on the dear woman as being the weaker vessel, and as co-heirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers may meet no interruption.