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For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from fornication;
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that each one of you know how to control your own body a in holiness and honor,
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not with lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;
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that no one wrong or exploit a brother or sister b in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, just as we have already told you beforehand and solemnly warned you.
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For God did not call us to impurity but in holiness.
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Therefore whoever rejects this rejects not human authority but God, who also gives his Holy Spirit to you.
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