1 Thessalonians 4:5
◄  1 Thessalonians 4:5  ►
New International Version (©2011)
not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God;

New Living Translation (©2007)
not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways.

English Standard Version (©2001)
not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
not with lustful desires, like the Gentiles who don't know God.

International Standard Version (©2012)
not with passion and lust like the gentiles who do not know God.

NET Bible (©2006)
not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
And not in the passion of lust, as others of the Gentiles who do not know God;

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
not in the passionate, lustful way of people who don't know God.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
Not in the lust of passion, even as the Gentiles who know not God:

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

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

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

Darby Bible Translation
(not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God,)

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

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

4:1-8 To abide in the faith of the gospel is not enough, we must abound in the work of faith. The rule according to which all ought to walk and act, is the commandments given by the Lord Jesus Christ. Sanctification, in the renewal of their souls under the influences of the Holy Spirit, and attention to appointed duties, constituted the will of God respecting them. In aspiring after this renewal of the soul unto holiness, strict restraint must be put upon the appetites and senses of the body, and on the thoughts and inclinations of the will, which lead to wrong uses of them. The Lord calls none into his family to live unholy lives, but that they may be taught and enabled to walk before him in holiness. Some make light of the precepts of holiness, because they hear them from men; but they are God's commands, and to break them is to despise God.

Pulpit Commentary

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.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Not in the lust of concupiscence,.... Or "passion of lust"; for the mere gratifying and indulging of that; for a man so to possess his vessel, is to cherish the sin of concupiscence, the first motions of sin in the heart, by which a man is drawn away, and enticed; to blow up the flame of lust, and to make provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof:

even as the Gentiles which know not God; for, though they knew him, or might know him with a natural knowledge, by the light and works of nature, yet they knew him not savingly and spiritually, as he is revealed in the word, of which they were destitute; or as the God of all grace, and the God and Father of Christ, or as he is in Christ: and though by the light of nature they might know there was a God, yet they knew not who that God was; nor did they act up to that light and knowledge they had; they did not glorify him as God, by ascribing to him what was his due; nor were they thankful for the mercies they received from him; nor did they fear, love, worship, and serve him; nor did they like to retain him in their knowledge, and therefore were given up to judicial blindness and hardness, to a reprobate mind, and to vile affections, and so did things very inconvenient, unnatural, and dishonourable. Wherefore, for a man to use either his wife or his body in any unchaste and dishonourable manner, for the gratifying of his lusts, is to act an Heathenish part; a like argument, dissuading from things unlawful, is used in Matthew 6:32.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

5. in the lust—Greek, "passion"; which implies that such a one is unconsciously the passive slave of lust.

which know not God—and so know no better. Ignorance of true religion is the parent of unchastity (Eph 4:18, 19). A people's morals are like the objects of their worship (De 7:26; Ps 115:8; Ro 1:23, 24).

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Live to Please God
…4That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honor; 5Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: 6That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified. …

Psalm 79:6 Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge you, on the kingdoms that do not call on your name;
Jeremiah 10:25 Pour out your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge you, on the peoples who do not call on your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have devoured him completely and destroyed his homeland.
Romans 1:26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural sexual 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, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.