For God has not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness.
For God has not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness.
For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
Because it is God's purpose that our way of life may be not unclean but holy.
For God hath not called us to uncleanness, but to holiness.
For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.
God hath not called us unto uncleanness - He is the creator of male and female, and the institutor of marriage, and he has called men and women to this state; but the end of this and all the other callings of God to man is holiness, not uncleanness. And they who use the marriage state as he directs, will find it conducive to their holiness and perfection.
For God hath not called us unto uncleanness - When he called us to be his followers, it was not that we should lead lives of impurity, but of holiness. We should, therefore, fulfil the purposes for which we were called into his kingdom. The word "uncleanness" (ἀκαθαρσία akatharsia), means, properly, "impurity, filth;" and then, in a moral sense, "pollution, lewdness," as opposed to chastity; Romans 1:24; Romans 6:19; 2 Corinthians 12:21; Galatians 5:19; Ephesians 4:19; Ephesians 5:3; Colossians 3:5.