1 Thessalonians 4:3
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
In other versions
For this is the will of God, `even' your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;
ASV
For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh;
BBE
For this is [the] will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;
DBY
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
WEB
for this is the will of God -- your sanctification; that ye abstain from the whoredom,
YLT
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that all of you should abstain from fornication:
ENG
For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from lewdness.
WBT
For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;
BSB
In context
1Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.
2For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
3For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:
4That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
5Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: