Holiness: For the Will of God Is Your Sanctification – 1 Thessalonians 4:3 [Annotated, Updated]

by J.C. Ryle

We must be holy because this is the only proof that we love the Lord Jesus Christ in sincerity. This is a point on which He has spoken most plainly. In the fourteenth and fifteenth chapters of John, He says, If ye love me, keep my commandments