For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.(1 Thessalonians 4:2)

For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication:(1 Thessalonians 4:3)

That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;(1 Thessalonians 4:4)

Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.(1 Thessalonians 4:6)

For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.(1 Thessalonians 4:7)

He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.(1 Thessalonians 4:8)

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1 Thessalonians 4:5 - Cross Reference

For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. (Acts 17:23)

For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. (1 Corinthians 1:21)

For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: (1 Peter 4:3)

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; (Romans 1:28)

That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world: (Ephesians 2:12)

(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. (Matthew 6:32)

Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame. (1 Corinthians 15:34)

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, (Ephesians 4:17)

For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things. (Luke 12:30)

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: (Colossians 3:5)

For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: (Romans 1:26)

Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods. (Galatians 4:8)

In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: (2 Thessalonians 1:8)

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: (Romans 1:24)

And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent: (Acts 17:30)