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1 Thessalonians 4:1-8 (NIV) Living to Please God

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As for other matters, brothers and sisters, we instructed you how to live in order to
please God, as in fact you are living. Now we ask you and urge you in the Lord Jesus
to do this more and more.
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For you know what instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.
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It is Gods will that you should be sanctified: that you should avoid sexual
immorality;
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that each of you should learn to control your own body[a] in a way that is holy and
honorable,
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not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God;
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and that in this matter no one should wrong or take advantage of a brother or
sister.[b] The Lord will punish all those who commit such sins, as we told you and
warned you before.
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For God did not call us to be impure, but to live a holy life.
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Therefore, anyone who rejects this instruction does not reject a human being but
God, the very God who gives you his Holy Spirit.

2. Romans 8:38-39 (NIV)

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For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor
demons,[a] neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,
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neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate
us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
3. Psalm 103:17-18 (NIV)
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But from everlasting to everlasting the LORDs love is with those who fear him, and
his righteousness with their childrens children
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with those who keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts.
4. Deuteronomy 10:12 (NIV) Fear the LORD
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And now, Israel, what does the LORD your God ask of you but to fearthe LORD your
God, to walk in obedience to him, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all
your heart and with all your soul,
5. Psalm 51:1-17(NIV)
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Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great
compassion blot out my transgressions.
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Wash away all my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.
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For I know my transgressions, and my sin is always before me.
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Against you, you only, have I sinned and done what is evil in your sight; so you are
right in your verdict and justified when you judge.
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Surely I was sinful at birth, sinful from the time my mother conceived me.
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Yet you desired faithfulness even in the womb; you taught me wisdom in that
secret place.
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Cleanse me with hyssop, and I will be clean; wash me, and I will be whiter than
snow.
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Let me hear joy and gladness; let the bones you have crushed rejoice.
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Hide your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquity.
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Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
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Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.
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Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
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Then I will teach transgressors your ways, so that sinners will turn back to you.
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Deliver me from the guilt of bloodshed, O God, you who are God my Savior, and
my tongue will sing of your righteousness.
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Open my lips, Lord, and my mouth will declare your praise.
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You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; you do not take pleasure in burnt
offerings.
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My sacrifice, O God, is[b] a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart you, God, will
not despise.
6. 1 John 1:9 (NIV)
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If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify
us from all unrighteousness.
7. Romans 8:1 (NIV) Life Through the Spirit
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Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus,
8. Ephesians 5:18 (NIV)
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Do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the
Spirit,
9. Matthew 3:8 (NIV)
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Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.
10. John 14:21 (NIV)
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Whoever has my commands and keeps them is the one who loves me. The one
who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too will love them and show myself
to them.
11. 1 John 2:3 (NIV) Love and Hatred for Fellow Believers
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We know that we have come to know him if we keep his commands.
12. Daniel 1:8 (NIV)
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But Daniel resolved not to defile himself with the royal food and wine, and he asked
the chief official for permission not to defile himself this way.
13. Daniel 1:9-13 (NIV)
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Now God had caused the official to show favor and compassion to Daniel,
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but the official told Daniel, I am afraid of my lord the king, who has assigned
your[a] food and drink. Why should he see you looking worse than the other young
men your age? The king would then have my head because of you.
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Daniel then said to the guard whom the chief official had appointed over Daniel,
Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah,
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Please test your servants for ten days: Give us nothing but vegetables to eat and
water to drink.
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Then compare our appearance with that of the young men who eat the royal food,
and treat your servants in accordance with what you see.
14. Hebrews 13:4 (NIV)
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Marriage should be honored by all, and the marriage bed kept pure, for God will
judge the adulterer and all the sexually immoral.
15. Psalm 1:1-3 (NIV)
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Blessed is the one who does not walk in step with the wicked or stand in the
way that sinners take or sit in the company of mockers,
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but whose delight is in the law of the LORD, and who meditates on his law day and
night.
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That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in
season
and whose leaf does not witherwhatever they do prospers.
16. Ephesians 5:8-10 (NIV)
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For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of
light
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(for the fruit of the light consists in all goodness, righteousness and truth)
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and find out what pleases the Lord.
17. Jeremiah 9:23-24 (NIV)
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This is what the LORD says: Let not the wise boast of their wisdom or the strong
boast of their strength or the rich boast of their riches,
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but let the one who boasts boast about this: that they have the understanding to
know me, that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on
earth, for in these I delight, declares the LORD.
18. Galatians 5:16 (NIV)
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So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.
19. Ecclesiastes 4:9-10 (NIV)
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Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor:
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If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But pity anyone who falls
and has no one to help them up.
20. Proverbs 27:17 (NIV)
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As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.
21. Ephesians 5:21 (NIV) Instructions for Christian Households
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Submit to one another out of reverence for Christ.
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22. Hebrews 10:24-25 (NIV)

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And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good
deeds,
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not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging
one anotherand all the more as you see the Day approaching.
23. 2 Timothy 2:22 (NIV)
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Flee the evil desires of youth and pursue righteousness, faith, love and peace,
along with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart.

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