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Each of you must learn to acquire a wife from pure and honorable motives, not to gratify passion[a] like the Gentiles who do not know God. No one is ever to wrong or take advantage of a brother in this regard.

As we have previously instructed you and solemnly warned you, the Lord is the avenger in all this. Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1 Thessalonians 4:5 Acquire a wife . . . gratify passion: another possible translation is: “control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable and not to succumb to lustful passion.”