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What does 1 Thessalonians 4:6 mean?
"that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified."
— 1 Thessalonians 4:6 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
For this is the will of God: your sanctification, that you abstain from sexual immorality,
that each one of you know how to control his own body in sanctification and honor,
not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God;
that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.
For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.
But concerning brotherly love, you have no need that one write to you. For you yourselves are taught by God to love one another,
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