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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1 Thessalonians 4:7

Better, 'For God called us not for uncleanness, but to be in a state of purity.'

Who hath also given] better, 'who is ever giving' (present tense).

This passage (1 Thessalonians 4:3) contains in brief a statement of the Christian doctrine of purity. Impurity is, (1) (from the point of view of the man himself) a dishonouring of the temple of the Holy Ghost (1 Corinthians 3:16): since He takes up His abode in it, and since Christ has become incarnate, and the body is to rise again, we must honour the body, not defile it; (2) (from the point of view of our brothers and sisters) a violation of the law of love—a fraud and a cheat. Sins of the flesh were very lightly regarded by the heathen world.

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