2. For you know what charges and precepts we gave you [on the authority and by the inspiration of] the Lord Jesus.
3. For this is the will of God, that you should be consecrated (separated and set apart for pure and holy living): that you should abstain and shrink from all sexual vice,
4. That each one of you should know how to possess (control, manage) his own body in consecration (purity, separated from things profane) and honor,
5. Not [to be used] in the passion of lust like the heathen, who are ignorant of the true God and have no knowledge of His will,