1 Thessalonians 4:7

Wycliffe Bible

For God clepide not vs in to vnclennesse, but in to holynesse.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
For God has not called us to impurity but to live in holiness.

King James Version (1611)
For God hath not called vs vnto vncleannesse, but vnto holinesse.

King James Version
For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.

English Standard Version
For God has not called us for impurity, but in holiness.

New American Standard Bible
For God has not called us for impurity, but in sanctification.

New Century Version
God called us to be holy and does not want us to live in sin.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For God has not called us for the purpose of impurity, but in sanctification.

Legacy Standard Bible
For God did not call us to impurity, but in sanctification.

Berean Standard Bible
For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.

Contemporary English Version
God didn't choose you to be filthy, but to be pure.

Complete Jewish Bible
For God did not call us to live an unclean life but a holy one.

Darby Translation
For God has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.

Easy-to-Read Version
God chose us to be holy. He does not want us to live in sin.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For God hath not called vs vnto vncleannesse, but vnto holinesse.

George Lamsa Translation
For God has not called you unto uncleanness but unto holiness.

Good News Translation
God did not call us to live in immorality, but in holiness.

Lexham English Bible
For God did not call us to impurity, but in holiness.

Literal Translation
For God did not call us to impurity, but in purity.

Amplified Bible
For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness [to be dedicated, and set apart by behavior that pleases Him, whether in public or in private].

American Standard Version
For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

Bible in Basic English
Because it is God's purpose that our way of life may be not unclean but holy.

Hebrew Names Version
For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

International Standard Version
For God did not call us to impurity but to holiness.Leviticus 11:44; 19:2; 1 Corinthians 1:2; Hebrews 12:14; 1 Peter 1:14-15;">[xr]

Etheridge Translation
For Aloha hath not called us to uncleanness, but unto sanctification.

Murdock Translation
For God did not call you unto impurity, but to sanctification.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
For God hath not called vs vnto vncleanenesse, but into holynesse.

English Revised Version
For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

World English Bible
For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

Wesley's New Testament (1755)
For God hath not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness.

Weymouth's New Testament
God has not called us to an unclean life, but to one of purity.

Update Bible Version
For God called us not for impurity, but in sanctification.

Webster's Bible Translation
For God hath not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness.

New English Translation
For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.

New King James Version
For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in holiness.

New Living Translation
God has called us to live holy lives, not impure lives.

New Life Bible
For God has not called us to live in sin. He has called us to live a holy life.

New Revised Standard
For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For God did not call us, with a permission of impurity, but, in sanctification.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto sanctification.

Revised Standard Version
For God has not called us for uncleanness, but in holiness.

Tyndale New Testament (1525)
For god hath not called vs vnto vnclennes: but vnto holynes.

Young's Literal Translation
for God did not call us on uncleanness, but in sanctification;

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For God hath not called vs to vnclennesse, but vnto holynes.

Mace New Testament (1729)
for God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness:

Simplified Cowboy Version
God did not invite us in to talk big, but to ride hard.

Contextual Overview

¹ Therfor, britheren, fro hennus forward we preien you, and bisechen in the Lord Jhesu, that as ye han resseyued of vs, hou it bihoueth you to go and to plese God, so walke ye, that ye abounde the more. ² For ye witen what comaundementis Y haue youun to you bi the Lord Jhesu. ³ For this is the wille of God, youre holynesse, that ye absteyne you fro fornycacioun. ⁴ That ech of you kunne welde his vessel in holynesse, and onour; ⁵ not in passioun of lust, as hethene men that knowen not God. ⁶ And that no man ouergo, nethir disseyue his brothir in chaffaring. For the Lord is venger of alle these thingis, as we biforseiden to you, and han witnessid. ⁷ For God clepide not vs in to vnclennesse, but in to holynesse. ⁸ Therfor he that dispisith these thingis, dispisith not man, but God, that also yaf his holi spirit in vs.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

God: Leviticus 11:44, Leviticus 19:2, Romans 1:7, Romans 8:29, Romans 8:30, 1 Corinthians 1:2, Ephesians 1:4, Ephesians 2:10, Ephesians 4:1, 2 Thessalonians 2:13, 2 Thessalonians 2:14, 2 Timothy 1:9, Hebrews 12:14, 1 Peter 1:14-16, 1 Peter 2:9-12, 1 Peter 2:21, 1 Peter 2:22

uncleanness: 1 Thessalonians 2:3, Galatians 5:19, Ephesians 4:19, 2 Peter 2:10

Reciprocal: Leviticus 11:45 - be holy Leviticus 20:7 - General Numbers 15:40 - be holy Psalms 110:3 - beauties Isaiah 35:8 - The way Luke 1:75 - General John 17:19 - for 1 Corinthians 5:1 - fornication 2 Corinthians 7:1 - perfecting Ephesians 5:3 - fornication Colossians 1:22 - to Titus 2:12 - denying 1 Peter 1:15 - as 2 Peter 1:3 - called

Cross-References

Genesis 3:16
Also God seide to the womman, Y schal multiplie thi wretchidnessis and thi conseyuyngis; in sorewe thou schalt bere thi children; and thou schalt be vndur power of the hosebonde, and he schal be lord of thee.

Genesis 4:6
And the Lord seide to hym, Whi art thou wrooth, and whi felde doun thi face?

Genesis 4:8
And Cayn seide to Abel his brother, Go we out. And whanne thei weren in the feeld, Cayn roos ayens his brother Abel, and killide him.

Genesis 4:9
And the Lord seide to Cayn, Where is Abel thi brother? Which answerde, Y woot not; whether Y am the kepere of my brothir?

Genesis 4:10
And God seide to Cayn, What hast thou do? the vois of the blood of thi brother crieth to me fro erthe.

Genesis 4:11
Now therfor thou schalt be cursid on erthe, that openyde his mouth, and resseyuede of thin hond the blood of thi brothir.

Genesis 4:12
Whanne thou schalt worche the erthe, it schal not yyue his fruytis to thee; thou schalt be vnstable of dwellyng and fleynge aboute on erthe in alle the daies of thi lijf.

Genesis 4:13
And Cayn seide to the Lord, My wickidnesse is more than that Y disserue foryyuenesse; lo!

Genesis 19:21
And he seide to Loth, Lo! also in this Y haue resseyued thi preieris, that Y distrye not the citee, for which thou hast spoke;

Numbers 32:23
But if ye doon not that, that ye seien, it is not doute to ony man, that ne ye synnen ayens God; and wite ye, that youre synne schal take you.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For God hath not called us,.... The Syriac version reads "you". This is another reason to enforce the above exhortations, and to caution them against the above unclean practices, taken from the end of the effectual calling by the efficacious grace of God, which is not

unto uncleanness of any sort, as before specified. This they had lived in before their calling, and were now called from it into communion with Christ, who loves righteousness, and hates iniquity; and by the Gospel, which teaches to deny ungodliness, and worldly lusts, and to forsake all impurity, both of flesh and spirit:

but this call is

unto holiness of life and conversation in general, and to chastity in thought, look, word, and actions in particular; for God that calls is holy, and therefore those who are called ought to be so; the calling with which they are called is an holy calling, principles of grace and holiness are wrought in their souls, when they are called; and the end of their calling is to live soberly, righteously, and godly; and then, and then only, do they walk worthy of that calling wherewith they are called, and of God who has, by his grace, called them to his kingdom and glory.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For God hath not called us unto uncleanness - When he called us to be his followers, it was not that we should lead lives of impurity, but of holiness. We should, therefore, fulfil the purposes for which we were called into his kingdom. The word “uncleanness” (ἀκαθαρσία akatharsia), means, properly, “impurity, filth;” and then, in a moral sense, “pollution, lewdness,” as opposed to chastity; Romans 1:24; Rom 6:19; 2 Corinthians 12:21; Galatians 5:19; Ephesians 4:19; Ephesians 5:3; Colossians 3:5.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 7. God hath not called us unto uncleanness — He is the creator of male and female, and the institutor of marriage, and he has called men and women to this state; but the end of this and all the other callings of God to man is holiness, not uncleanness. And they who use the marriage state as he directs, will find it conducive to their holiness and perfection.