Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t recognise you and on the families that don’t call on your name, for they have consumed Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off and made his homeland desolate.
1 Thessalonians 4:5 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised not with lustful passions, like the Gentiles, who don’t know God. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition 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) not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God; Common English Bible Don’t be controlled by your sexual urges like the Gentiles who don’t know God. Catholic Public Domain Version not in passions of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles that know not God: |
Pour out your wrath on the nations that don’t recognise you and on the families that don’t call on your name, for they have consumed Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off and made his homeland desolate.
For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
For the Gentile world eagerly seeks all these things, and your Father knows that you need them.
For as I was passing through and observing the objects of your worship, I even found an altar on which was inscribed, “To an Unknown God.” Therefore, what you worship in ignorance, this I proclaim to you.
Therefore God delivered them over in the desires of their hearts to sexual impurity, so that their bodies were degraded among themselves.
For this reason God delivered them over to disgraceful passions. Their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.
And because they did not think it worth while to acknowledge God, God delivered them over to a corrupt mind so that they do what is not right.
For since, in God’s wisdom, the world did not know God through wisdom, God was pleased to save those who believe through the foolishness of what is preached.
Come to your senses , and stop sinning; for some people are ignorant about God. I say this to your shame.
But in the past, since you didn’t know God, you were enslaved to things that by nature are not gods.
At that time you were without Christ, excluded from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of promise, without hope and without God in the world.
Therefore, put to death what belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.
when he takes vengeance with flaming fire on those who don’t know God and on those who don’t obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
For there has already been enough time spent in doing what the Gentiles choose to do: carrying on in unrestrained behaviour, evil desires, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and lawless idolatry.