1 Thessalonians 4:5

James Moffatt - New Testament

not to gratify sensual passion like the Gentiles in their ignorance of God —

Cross References

Galatians 4:8

In those days, when you were ignorant of God, you were in servitude to gods who are really no gods at all;

2 Thessalonians 1:8

in flaming fire, to inflict punishment on those who ignore God, even on those who refuse obedience to the gospel of our Lord Jesus,

Colossians 3:5

So put to death those members that are on earth: sexual vice, impurity, appetite, evil desire, and lust (which is idolatry),

1 Peter 4:3

It is quite enough to have done as pagans choose to do, during the time gone by! You used to lead lives of sensuality, lust, carousing, revelry, dissipation and illicit idolatry,

Ephesians 2:12

remember you were in those days outside Christ, aliens to the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the Promise, devoid of hope and God within the world.

1 Corinthians 15:34

Get back to your sober senses and avoid sin, for some of you — and I say this to your shame — some of you are insensible to God.

Romans 1:28

Yes, as they disdained to acknowledge God any longer, God has given them up to a reprobate instinct, for the perpetration of what is improper,

Romans 1:26

That is why God has given them up to vile passions; their women have exchanged the natural function of sex for what is unnatural,

Romans 1:24

So God has given them up, in their heart's lust, to sexual vice, to the dishonouring of their own bodies, —

Acts 17:23

Why, as I passed along and scanned your objects of worship, I actually came upon an altar with the inscription TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Well, I proclaim to you what you worship in your ignorance.

Luke 12:30

pagans make food and drink their aim in life, but your Father knows quite well you need that;

Matthew 6:32

(pagans make all that their aim in life) for your heavenly Father knows quite well you need all that.

1 Corinthians 1:21

For when the world with all its wisdom failed to know God in his wisdom, God resolved to save believers by the 'sheer folly' of the Christian message.