That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor; Treasury of Scripture should. Romans 6:19 I speak after the manner of men because of the infirmity of your flesh... Romans 12:1 I beseech you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God... 1 Corinthians 6:15,18-20 Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ... his. 1 Samuel 21:5 And David answered the priest, and said to him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days, since I came out... Acts 9:15 But the Lord said to him, Go your way: for he is a chosen vessel to me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings... Romans 9:21-23 Has not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump to make one vessel to honor, and another to dishonor... 2 Timothy 2:20,21 But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honor... 1 Peter 3:7 Likewise, you husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel... honour. Philippians 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things are honest, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure... Hebrews 13:4 Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled: but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Context Live to Please God
1Furthermore then we beseech you, brothers, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as you have received of us how you ought to walk and to please God, so you would abound more and more. 2For you know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. 3For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that you should abstain from fornication: 4That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor; 5Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: 6That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. 7For God has not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness. 8He therefore that despises, despises not man, but God, who has also given to us his holy Spirit. 9But as touching brotherly love you need not that I write to you: for you yourselves are taught of God to love one another. 10And indeed you do it toward all the brothers which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brothers, that you increase more and more; 11And that you study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you; 12That you may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that you may have lack of nothing. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,
Douay-Rheims Bible
That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour:
Darby Bible Translation
that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour,
King James Bible
That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;
Young's Literal Translation
that each of you know his own vessel to possess in sanctification and honour,
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