Cross references

1 Thessalonians 4:7

For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.

1 Thessalonians 4:7 BSB

1 Thessalonians 4:7 has 18 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 17 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Leviticus 11:44 (23 votes) and 1 Peter 2:9–12 (20 votes). 31 other verses point back to it. It links with 21 other books, from Leviticus 11 to 2 Peter 2.

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Which verses does 1 Thessalonians 4:7 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. For I am the LORD your God; consecrate yourselves, therefore, and be holy, because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any creature that crawls along the ground.

  2. But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, to proclaim the virtues of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. …

  3. For He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world to be holy and blameless in His presence. In love

  4. As obedient children, do not conform to the passions of your former ignorance. But just as He who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do, …

  5. “Speak to the whole congregation of Israel and tell them: Be holy because I, the LORD your God, am holy.

  6. For those God foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brothers. And those He predestined, He also called; those He called, He also justified; those He justified, He also glorified.

  7. For to this you were called, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in His footsteps: “He committed no sin, and no deceit was found in His mouth.”

  8. He has saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works, but by His own purpose and by the grace He granted us in Christ Jesus before time began.

  9. 2 Peter 2:1010 votes

    Such punishment is specially reserved for those who indulge the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and self-willed, they are unafraid to slander glorious beings.

  10. The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery;

  11. Romans 1:74 votes

Which verses point to 1 Thessalonians 4:7?

The 10 strongest of 31.