that each one of you know how to control his own (A)body[a] in holiness and (B)honor,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 4:4 Or how to take a wife for himself; Greek how to possess his own vessel

that each of you should learn to control your own body[a](A) in a way that is holy and honorable,

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 4:4 Or learn to live with your own wife; or learn to acquire a wife

Job's Final Appeal

31 “I have made a covenant with my (A)eyes;
    how then could I gaze at a virgin?

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31 “I made a covenant with my eyes(A)
    not to look lustfully at a young woman.(B)

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34 and his interests are divided. And the unmarried or betrothed woman is anxious about the things of the Lord, how to be holy in body and spirit. But the married woman is anxious about worldly things, how to please her husband.

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34 and his interests are divided. An unmarried woman or virgin is concerned about the Lord’s affairs: Her aim is to be devoted to the Lord in both body and spirit.(A) But a married woman is concerned about the affairs of this world—how she can please her husband.

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