1 Thessalonians 4:5

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God. If it begins first with us, what will happen to those who don’t obey the Good News of God?

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their hearts, that they might walk in their own counsels.

He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who disbelieves will be condemned.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

Therefore don’t be like them, for your Father knows what things you need, before you ask him.

Because by the works of the law, no flesh will be justified in his sight; for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.

who are Israelites; whose is the adoption, the glory, the covenants, the giving of the law, the service, and the promises;

Let marriage be held in honor among all, and let the bed be undefiled; but God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

He said to all, “If anyone desires to come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.

For sin will not have dominion over you. For you are not under law, but under grace.

Don’t you know that when you present yourselves as servants and obey someone, you are the servants of whomever you obey; whether of sin to death, or of obedience to righteousness?

For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.

However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,

Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having in the same way as these given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

They called to Lot, and said to him, “Where are the men who came in to you this night? Bring them out to us, that we may have sex with them.”

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife. Neither shall you desire your neighbor’s house, his field, or his male servant, or his female servant, his ox, or his donkey, or anything that is your neighbor’s.”

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, on the kingdoms that don’t call on your name;

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

“How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses.

The snorting of his horses is heard from Dan. The whole land trembles at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they have come, and have devoured the land and all that is in it, the city and those who dwell therein.”

Therefore all those who devour you will be devoured. All your adversaries, everyone of them, will go into captivity. Those who plunder you will be plunder. I will make all who prey on you become prey.

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness hasn’t overcome it.

You worship that which you don’t know. We worship that which we know; for salvation is from the Jews.

The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

Also, do not present your members to sin as instruments of unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.

But sin, finding occasion through the commandment, produced in me all kinds of coveting. For apart from the law, sin is dead.

For the word of the cross is foolishness to those who are dying, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

Or don’t you know that the unrighteous will not inherit God’s Kingdom? Don’t be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals,

You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.

that again when I come my God would humble me before you, and I would mourn for many of those who have sinned before now, and not repented of the uncleanness, sexual immorality, and lustfulness which they committed.

envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

You, being in past times alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil deeds,

for the sexually immoral, for homosexuals, for slave-traders, for liars, for perjurers, and for any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine,

Beloved, I beg you as foreigners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain wicked fellows, surrounded the house, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, “Bring out the man who came into your house, that we can have sex with him!”

Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, who eat up my people as they eat bread, and don’t call on Yahweh?

He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.

“They bend their tongue, as their bow, for falsehood. They have grown strong in the land, but not for truth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they don’t know me,” says Yahweh.

Your habitation is in the middle of deceit. Through deceit, they refuse to know me,” says Yahweh.

In that same hour Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit, and said, “I thank you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for so it was well-pleasing in your sight.”

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

Do this, knowing the time, that it is already time for you to awaken out of sleep, for salvation is now nearer to us than when we first believed.

I say this to move you to shame. Isn’t there even one wise man among you who would be able to decide between his brothers?

Therefore concerning the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no other God but one.

But I say, walk by the Spirit, and you won’t fulfill the lust of the flesh.

Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

But we don’t want you to be ignorant, brothers, concerning those who have fallen asleep, so that you don’t grieve like the rest, who have no hope.

Because of this, God sends them a working of error, that they should believe a lie;

Flee from youthful lusts; but pursue righteousness, faith, love, and peace with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

Surely such are the dwellings of the unrighteous. This is the place of him who doesn’t know God.”

Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t know you, and on the families that don’t call on your name; for they have devoured Jacob. Yes, they have devoured him, consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

Flee sexual immorality! “Every sin that a man does is outside the body,” but he who commits sexual immorality sins against his own body.

punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,

as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.

For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.

For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I also found an altar with this inscription: ‘TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.’ What therefore you worship in ignorance, I announce to you.

Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves;

Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

Therefore don’t let sin reign in your mortal body, that you should obey it in its lusts.

What shall we say then? Is the law sin? May it never be! However, I wouldn’t have known sin, except through the law. For I wouldn’t have known coveting, unless the law had said, “You shall not covet.”

For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage.

For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel my chosen, I have called you by your name. I have given you a title, though you have not known me.