帖撒罗尼迦前书 4:5

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

不要放縱邪情私慾，像那些不認識　神的外族人一樣；

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
不 放 纵 私 欲 的 邪 情 ， 像 那 不 认 识 神 的 外 邦 人 。

Contextual Overview

¹ Brothers and sisters, we taught you how to live in a way that will please God, and you are living that way. Now we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live that way even more. ² You know what we told you to do by the authority of the Lord Jesus. ³ God wants you to be holy and to stay away from sexual sins. ⁴ He wants each of you to learn to control your own body in a way that is holy and honorable. ⁵ Don't use your body for sexual sin like the people who do not know God. ⁶ Also, do not wrong or cheat another Christian in this way. The Lord will punish people who do those things as we have already told you and warned you. ⁷ God called us to be holy and does not want us to live in sin. ⁸ So the person who refuses to obey this teaching is disobeying God, not simply a human teaching. And God is the One who gives us his Holy Spirit.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

in the: Romans 1:24, Romans 1:26, Colossians 3:5

as the: Matthew 6:32, Luke 12:30, Ephesians 4:17-19, 1 Peter 4:3

know: Acts 17:23, Acts 17:30, Acts 17:31, Romans 1:28, 1 Corinthians 1:21, 1 Corinthians 15:34, Galatians 4:8, Ephesians 2:12, 2 Thessalonians 1:8

Reciprocal: Esther 2:12 - to go in Job 18:21 - knoweth Isaiah 45:4 - though Jeremiah 10:25 - that know Romans 6:12 - in the lusts Romans 7:7 - lust 1 Corinthians 6:18 - sinneth Ephesians 4:18 - the understanding 1 Peter 1:14 - in

Cross-References

Genesis 4:10
Then the Lord said, "What have you done? Your brother's blood is crying out to me from the ground.

Genesis 4:11
And now you will be cursed in your work with the ground, the same ground where your brother's blood fell and where your hands killed him.

Genesis 31:2
Then Jacob noticed that Laban was not as friendly as he had been before.

Genesis 31:5
He said to them, "I have seen that your father is not as friendly with me as he used to be, but the God of my father has been with me.

Numbers 16:15
Then Moses became very angry and said to the Lord , "Don't accept their gifts. I have not taken anything from them, not even a donkey, and I have not done wrong to any of them."

Job 5:2
Anger kills the fool, and jealousy slays the stupid.

Psalms 20:3
May he remember all your offerings and accept all your sacrifices. Selah

Matthew 20:15
I can do what I want with my own money. Are you jealous because I am good to those people?'

Acts 13:45
Seeing the crowd, the Jewish people became very jealous and said insulting things and argued against what Paul said.

Hebrews 11:4
It was by faith that Abel offered God a better sacrifice than Cain did. God said he was pleased with the gifts Abel offered and called Abel a good man because of his faith. Abel died, but through his faith he is still speaking.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Not in the lust of concupiscence,.... Or "passion of lust"; for the mere gratifying and indulging of that; for a man so to possess his vessel, is to cherish the sin of concupiscence, the first motions of sin in the heart, by which a man is drawn away, and enticed; to blow up the flame of lust, and to make provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof:

even as the Gentiles which know not God; for, though they knew him, or might know him with a natural knowledge, by the light and works of nature, yet they knew him not savingly and spiritually, as he is revealed in the word, of which they were destitute; or as the God of all grace, and the God and Father of Christ, or as he is in Christ: and though by the light of nature they might know there was a God, yet they knew not who that God was; nor did they act up to that light and knowledge they had; they did not glorify him as God, by ascribing to him what was his due; nor were they thankful for the mercies they received from him; nor did they fear, love, worship, and serve him; nor did they like to retain him in their knowledge, and therefore were given up to judicial blindness and hardness, to a reprobate mind, and to vile affections, and so did things very inconvenient, unnatural, and dishonourable. Wherefore, for a man to use either his wife or his body in any unchaste and dishonourable manner, for the gratifying of his lusts, is to act an Heathenish part; a like argument, dissuading from things unlawful, is used in Matthew 6:32.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Not in the lust of concupiscence - In gross gratifications.

Even as the Gentiles - This was, and is, a common vice among the pagan; see the Acts 15:20 note; Romans 1:29 note; Ephesians 4:17-18 notes, and the reports of missionaries everywhere.

Which know not God - See the Romans 1:21, Romans 1:28 notes; Ephesians 2:12 note.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 1 Thessalonians 4:5. Not in the lust of concupiscence — Having no rational object, aim, nor end. Some say, "not like beasts;" but this does not apply as they who use it wish, for the males and females of the brute creation are regular and consistent in their intercourse, and scarcely ever exceed such bounds as reason itself would prescribe to those most capable of observing and obeying its dictates.

The Gentiles which know not God — These are the beasts; their own brutes are rational creatures when compared with them. Enough has been said on this subject on Romans 1:0, and 2: They who wish to see more may consult Juvenal, and particularly his 6th and 9th Satires; and indeed all the writers on Greek and Roman morals.