3 For this is {the} will of God, {even} your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication;

4 that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour,

5 (not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God,)

3 Ko ta te Atua hoki tenei e pai ai, ara ko to koutou whakatapunga, kia mawehe koutou i te moepuku.

4 Kia matau koutou katoa ki tona tinana, ki tona tinana, kia mau i runga i te tapu, i te honore.

5 Kaua i runga i te toronga o te hiahia, kei rite ki nga tauiwi kahore nei e matau ki te Atua.