1 Thessalonians 4:5
not in passion of lust, as also the Gentiles who have not known God,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
In Context
4for each of you to know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and reverence,
Cross References
Matthew 6:32For the Gentiles seek after all these things, for your heavenly Father knows that ye need all these things.
Acts 17:23For, passing through and examining your religious objects, I also found an altar on which had been engraved, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye worship unknowingly, him I proclaim to you.
Romans 1:24And for this reason God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, to degrade their bodies among themselves,
Romans 1:28And just as they did not approve having God in knowledge, God gave them over to an unfit mind, to do things that are not fit;
1 Corinthians 15:34Sober up rightly, and do not sin, for some have ignorance of God. I speak shame about you.
Ephesians 2:12that ye were at that time independent of Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and alien of the covenants of the promise, having no hope and godless in the world.
Matthew Henry on 1 Thessalonians 4:2-9
Exhortations to Holiness; Caution against Impurity. ( a. d. 51.) 1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more. 2 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus. 3 For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye should abstain from fornication: 4 That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour; 5 Not in the lust… Read the whole commentary →