Plea for Purity
1 Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus that you should abound more and more, just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God;
2 for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.
3 For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you should abstain from sexual immorality;
4 that each of you should know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
5 not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God;
6 that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified.
7 For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness.
8 Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given us His Holy Spirit
I Thessalonians 4:1-8
I read these often, and I just wanted to say thanks. They really help.
You’re welcome.
Amen
what in the world does v6 mean
Edit: downvoters don't know either lol
My best guess on what verse 6 means:
"We've urged you to be good (to walk how you ought and to please God, verses 1-5); so please actually be good, instead of being fake with each other and pretending to be good (defrauding one another). The Lord will know the fraud and your deceit will cost you."
We shouldn't defraud our brothers, like Democrats raping us in the ass.
Lol... nice tie in with the context
God is really big on practicing self-control. Really you could substitute many desires in there and it would be equally valid. Sexual lack of control and selfishness is just one of the most common and obvious.
a "passion of lust" as it were?