1 Thessalonians 4:5
New International Version
not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God;

New Living Translation
not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways.

English Standard Version
not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;

Berean Standard Bible
not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;

Berean Literal Bible
not in the passion of lust, as also the Gentiles, not knowing God;

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

New King James Version
not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God;

New American Standard Bible
not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;

NASB 1995
not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;

NASB 1977
not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;

Legacy Standard Bible
not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;

Amplified Bible
not [to be used] in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God and are ignorant of His will;

Christian Standard Bible
not with lustful passions, like the Gentiles, who don’t know God.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
not with lustful desires, like the Gentiles who don’t know God.

American Standard Version
not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And not in the passion of lust, as others of the Gentiles who do not know God;

Contemporary English Version
Don't be a slave of your desires or live like people who don't know God.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles that know not God:

English Revised Version
not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles which know not God;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
not in the passionate, lustful way of people who don't know God.

Good News Translation
not with a lustful desire, like the heathen who do not know God.

International Standard Version
not with passion and lust like the gentiles who do not know God.

Literal Standard Version
not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

Majority Standard Bible
not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;

New American Bible
not in lustful passion as do the Gentiles who do not know God;

NET Bible
not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God.

New Revised Standard Version
not with lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;

New Heart English Bible
not in the passion of lust, even as the nations who do not know God;

Webster's Bible Translation
Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles who know not God:

Weymouth New Testament
that you be not overmastered by lustful cravings, like the Gentiles who have no knowledge of God;

World English Bible
not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,

Young's Literal Translation
not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Living to Please God
4each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, 5not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God; 6and no one should ever violate or exploit his brother in this regard, because the Lord will avenge all such acts, as we have already told you and solemnly warned you.…

Cross References
Psalm 79:6
Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,

Jeremiah 10:25
Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homeland.

Romans 1:26
For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.

Galatians 4:8
Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.

Ephesians 2:12
remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.


Treasury of Scripture

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

in the.

Romans 1:24,26
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: …

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

as the.

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

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

Ephesians 4:17-19
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, …

know.

Acts 17:23,30,31
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…

Romans 1:28
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;

1 Corinthians 1:21
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.

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1 Thessalonians 4
1. He exhorts them to go forward in all manner of godliness;
6. to live holily and justly;
9. to love one another;
11. and quietly to follow their own business;
13. and last of all, to sorrow moderately for the dead.
17. followed by a brief description of the resurrection, and second coming of Christ to judgment.














(5) Not in the lust of concupiscence, for such a method of using one's faculties, such an attempt to acquire mastery of vital powers, is really to abandon them altogether to others. This notion is involved in the very word here translated "lust," which is more often rendered "passion," and implies something which befalls a man, something done to him: "Not in the helpless passivity of concupiscence" or uncontrolled desire.

The Gentiles which know not God.--Mind the punctuation. The readers of the letter were "Gentiles which knew God." Their brother Thessalonians. are held up to them as melancholy examples of men who are trying in the wrong way to show their power over themselves. Remark that this is not one of the crimes which he alleges against Jews.

Verse 5. - Not in the lust of concupiscence - not in the passion of lust (R.V.) - even as the Gentiles which know not God; and therefore from whom nothing better was to be expected. The moral sense of the heathen was so perverted, and their natures so corrupt, that they looked upon fornication as a thing indifferent.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
not
μὴ (mē)
Adverb
Strong's 3361: Not, lest. A primary particle of qualified negation; not, lest; also (whereas ou expects an affirmative one) whether.

in
ἐν (en)
Preposition
Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.

lustful
ἐπιθυμίας (epithymias)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 1939: Desire, eagerness for, inordinate desire, lust. From epithumeo; a longing.

passion
πάθει (pathei)
Noun - Dative Neuter Singular
Strong's 3806: Suffering, emotion, depraved passion, lust. From the alternate of pascho; properly, suffering, i.e. a passion.

like
καθάπερ (kathaper)
Adverb
Strong's 2509: Even as, just as. From katha and per; exactly as.

the
τὰ (ta)
Article - Nominative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

Gentiles
ἔθνη (ethnē)
Noun - Nominative Neuter Plural
Strong's 1484: Probably from etho; a race, i.e. A tribe; specially, a foreign one.

who
τὰ (ta)
Article - Nominative Neuter Plural
Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.

do not know
εἰδότα (eidota)
Verb - Perfect Participle Active - Nominative Neuter Plural
Strong's 1492: To know, remember, appreciate.

God;
Θεόν (Theon)
Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular
Strong's 2316: A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.


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