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

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God;

English Standard Version
not in the 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;

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

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

International Standard Version
not with passion and lust like the gentiles who do not know 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,)

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

Cross References

Psalm 79:6
Pour out your wrath on the heathen that have not known you, and on the kingdoms that have not called on your name.

Jeremiah 10:25
Pour out your fury on the heathen that know you not, and on the families that call not on your name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

Romans 1:26
For this cause God gave them up to vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:

Galatians 4:8
However, then, when you knew not God, you did service to them which by nature are no gods.

Ephesians 2:12
That at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's 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.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

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).