1 Thessalonians 4:7-8

A Life Pleasing to God

⁷ For _r God has not called us for _s impurity, but in holiness. ⁸ Therefore _t whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, _u who gives his Holy Spirit to you.

1. Cross References
   1 Thessalonians 4:3
   For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality.
   1 Peter 1:15
   But as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct.
   
2. Cross References
   1 Thessalonians 2:3
   For our appeal does not spring from error or impurity or any attempt to deceive.
   
3. Cross References
   1 Thessalonians 2:13
   And we also thank God constantly for this, that when you received the word of God, which you heard from us, you accepted it not as the word of men but as what it really is, the word of God, which is at work in you believers.
   Luke 10:16
   "The one who hears you hears me, and the one who rejects you rejects me, and the one who rejects me rejects him who sent me."
   
4. Cross References
   1 John 3:24
   Whoever keeps his commandments abides in God, and God in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, by the Spirit whom he has given us.
   1 John 4:13
   By this we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit.