1 Thessalonians 4:5 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁵ not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles which know not God;

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Not [to be used] in the passion of lust like the heathen, who are ignorant of the true God and have no knowledge of His will,

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;

Common English Bible

⁵ Don’t be controlled by your sexual urges like the Gentiles who don’t know God.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ not in passions of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles that know not God:

1 Thessalonians 4:5 Cross References

Psalm 79:6

Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that know thee not, And upon the kingdoms that call not upon thy name.

Jeremiah 10:25

Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have devoured Jacob, yea, they have devoured him and consumed him, and have laid waste his habitation.

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: but your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

Acts 17:23

For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD What therefore ye worship in ignorance, this set I forth unto you.

Romans 1:24

Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonoured among themselves:

Romans 1:26

For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature:

Romans 1:28

And even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

1 Corinthians 1:21

For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save them that believe.

1 Corinthians 15:34

Awake up righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak this to move you to shame.

Galatians 4:8

Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to them which by nature are no gods:

Ephesians 2:12

that ye were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

Colossians 3:5

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, the which is idolatry;

2 Thessalonians 1:8

in flaming fire, rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus:

1 Peter 4:3

For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries: