1 Thessalonians 4:5

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not in the passionate, lustful way of people who don’t know God.

Cross References

Psalm 79:6

Pour your fury on the nations that do not know you, on the kingdoms that have not called you.

Jeremiah 10:25

Pour out your fury on the nations who don’t know you and on people who don’t worship you. They have devoured the descendants of Jacob. They have devoured them completely. They have destroyed their homes.

Matthew 6:32

Everyone is concerned about these things, and your heavenly Father certainly knows you need all of them.

Luke 12:30

Everyone in the world is concerned about these things, but your Father knows you need them.

Acts 17:23

As I was going through your city and looking closely at the objects you worship, I noticed an altar with this written on it: ‘To an unknown god.’ I’m telling you about the unknown god you worship.

Romans 1:24

For this reason God allowed their lusts to control them. As a result, they dishonor their bodies by sexual perversion with each other.

Romans 1:26

For this reason God allowed their shameful passions to control them. Their women have exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.

Romans 1:28

And because they thought it was worthless to acknowledge God, God allowed their own immoral minds to control them. So they do these indecent things.

1 Corinthians 1:21

The world with its wisdom was unable to recognize God in terms of his own wisdom. So God decided to use the nonsense of the Good News we speak to save those who believe.

1 Corinthians 15:34

Come back to the right point of view, and stop sinning. Some people don’t know anything about God. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

Galatians 4:8

When you didn’t know God, you were slaves to things which are really not gods at all.

Ephesians 2:12

Also, at that time you were without Christ. You were excluded from citizenship in Israel, and the pledges  ⌞God made in his⌟ promise were foreign to you. You had no hope and were in the world without God.

Colossians 3:5

Therefore, put to death whatever is worldly in you: your sexual sin, perversion, passion, lust, and greed (which is the same thing as worshiping wealth).

2 Thessalonians 1:8

He will take revenge on those who refuse to acknowledge God and on those who refuse to respond to the Good News about our Lord Jesus.

1 Peter 4:3

You spent enough time in the past doing what unbelievers like to do. You were promiscuous, had sinful desires, got drunk, went to wild parties, and took part in the forbidden worship of false gods.