Verse 7

For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.

Referenced Verses

  • Eph 1:4 : 4 For he chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and blameless before him in love.
  • Lev 11:44 : 44 for I am the LORD your God and you are to sanctify yourselves and be holy because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any of the swarming things that creep on the ground,
  • 1 Thess 2:3 : 3 For the appeal we make does not come from error or impurity or with deceit,
  • 2 Thess 2:13-14 : 13 Call to Stand Firm But we ought to thank God always for you, brothers and sisters loved by the Lord, because God chose you from the beginning for salvation through sanctification by the Spirit and faith in the truth. 14 He called you to this salvation through our gospel, so that you may possess the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • 2 Tim 1:9 : 9 He is the one who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not based on our works but on his own purpose and grace, granted to us in Christ Jesus before time began,
  • Heb 12:14 : 14 Do Not Reject God’s Warning Pursue peace with everyone, and holiness, for without it no one will see the Lord.
  • 1 Pet 1:14-16 : 14 Like obedient children, do not comply with the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance, 15 but, like the Holy One who called you, become holy yourselves in all of your conduct, 16 for it is written,“You shall be holy, because I am holy.”
  • 1 Pet 2:9-9 : 9 But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may proclaim the virtues of the one who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. 10 You once were not a people, but now you are God’s people. You were shown no mercy, but now you have received mercy. 11 Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul, 12 and maintain good conduct among the non-Christians, so that though they now malign you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God when he appears.
  • 1 Pet 2:21-22 : 21 For to this you were called, since Christ also suffered for you, leaving an example for you to follow in his steps. 22 He committed no sin nor was deceit found in his mouth.
  • 2 Pet 2:10 : 10 especially those who indulge their fleshly desires and who despise authority. Brazen and insolent, they are not afraid to insult the glorious ones,
  • Eph 2:10 : 10 For we are his creative work, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand so we can do them.
  • Eph 4:1 : 1 Live in Unity I, therefore, the prisoner for the Lord, urge you to live worthily of the calling with which you have been called,
  • Eph 4:19 : 19 Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.
  • Rom 1:7 : 7 To all those loved by God in Rome, called to be saints: Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!
  • Rom 8:29-30 : 29 because those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that his Son would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters. 30 And those he predestined, he also called; and those he called, he also justified; and those he justified, he also glorified.
  • 1 Cor 1:2 : 2 to the church of God that is in Corinth, to those who are sanctified in Christ Jesus, and called to be saints, with all those in every place who call on the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, their Lord and ours.
  • Gal 5:19 : 19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,
  • Lev 19:2 : 2 “Speak to the whole congregation of the Israelites and tell them,‘You must be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.