Lectionary Calendar
Monday, May 5th, 2025
the Third Week after Easter
Attention!
Tired of seeing ads while studying? Now you can enjoy an "Ads Free" version of the site for as little as 10¢ a day and support a great cause!
Click here to learn more!

Read the Bible

Amplified Bible

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not [to be used] in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God and are ignorant of His will;

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Adultery;   Affections;   Blindness;   Commandments;   Lasciviousness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Chastity-Impurity;   Evil;   Lust;   Passions, Evil;   The Topic Concordance - Defrauding;   Despisement;   Sexual Activities;   Teaching;   Vengeance;   Will of God;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Affections, the;   Gentiles;   Ignorance of God;   Jews, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Thessalonians, Epistle to the 1 and 2;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Fornication;   Gentile;   Marriage;   Men;   Self-discipline;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Lust;   Marriage;   Sanctification;   Thessalonians, First and Second, Theology of;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Concupiscence;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Thessalonians, the Epistles to the;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Concupiscence;   Ethics;   Gentiles;   Immorality;   Passion;   Sanctification;   Sex, Biblical Teaching on;   1 Thessalonians;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Thessalonians, First Epistle to the;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Abstinence;   Gentiles;   Lust;   Passion Passions;   Thessalonians Epistles to the;   Will;   Worldliness;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Concupiscence;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Thessalo'nians, First Epistle to the,;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Concupiscence;   Lust;   Passion;   Thessalonians, the First Epistle of Paul to the;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
not with lustful passions, like the Gentiles, who don’t know God.
King James Version (1611)
Not in the lust of concupiscence, euen as the Gentiles which know not God:
King James Version
Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
English Standard Version
not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;
New American Standard Bible
not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;
New Century Version
Don't use your body for sexual sin like the people who do not know God.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;
Legacy Standard Bible
not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;
Berean Standard Bible
not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
Contemporary English Version
Don't be a slave of your desires or live like people who don't know God.
Complete Jewish Bible
without giving in to lustful desires, like the pagans who don't know God.
Darby Translation
(not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God,)
Easy-to-Read Version
Don't let your sexual desires control you like the people who don't know God.
Geneva Bible (1587)
And not in the lust of concupiscence, euen as the Gentiles which know not God:
George Lamsa Translation
And not through the passion of lust, even as the rest of the Gentiles who know not God:
Good News Translation
not with a lustful desire, like the heathen who do not know God.
Lexham English Bible
not in lustful passion, just as also the Gentiles who do not know God;
Literal Translation
not in passion of lust, even as also the nations do , not knowing God;
American Standard Version
not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;
Bible in Basic English
Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God;
Hebrew Names Version
not in the passion of lust, even as the Goyim who don't know God;
International Standard Version
not with passion and lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;Romans 1:24,26; 1 Corinthians 15:34; Galatians 4:8; Ephesians 2:12; 4:17-18; Colossians 3:5; 2 Thessalonians 1:8;">[xr]
Etheridge Translation
and not in the passions of concupiscence, as the rest of the Gentiles who know not Aloha.
Murdock Translation
and not in the concupiscence of lust, like the rest of the Gentiles who know not God:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Not in the lust of concupiscence, euen as the gentiles, which knowe not God.
English Revised Version
not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles which know not God;
World English Bible
not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don't know God;
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
Not in passionate desire, as the Gentiles who know not God.
Weymouth's New Testament
that you be not overmastered by lustful cravings, like the Gentiles who have no knowledge of God;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
not in passioun of lust, as hethene men that knowen not God.
Update Bible Version
not by immoral sexual passion, even as the Gentiles who don't know God;
Webster's Bible Translation
Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles who know not God:
New English Translation
not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God.
New King James Version
not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God;
New Living Translation
not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways.
New Life Bible
You should not use it to please your own desires like the people who do not know God.
New Revised Standard
not with lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Not with a passion of coveting, - just as even the nations who know not God, -
Douay-Rheims Bible
Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles that know not God:
Revised Standard Version
not in the passion of lust like heathen who do not know God;
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
and not in the lust of concupiscence as do the hethen which knowe not god
Young's Literal Translation
not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
& not in the lust of concupiscence, as the Heythen which knowe not God.
Mace New Testament (1729)
person unsullied by the vices of the Gentiles, who know not God:
Simplified Cowboy Version
Don't be like those wannabe cowboys who run around with their tongue hanging out so far in lust they could accidentally zip it up in their britches. I don't care what they say, these wannabe "cowboys" don't know God and sure don't ride for the brand.

Contextual Overview

1Finally, believers, we ask and admonish you in the Lord Jesus, that you follow the instruction that you received from us about how you ought to walk and please God (just as you are actually doing) and that you excel even more and more [pursuing a life of purpose and living in a way that expresses gratitude to God for your salvation]. 2For you know what commandments and precepts we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus. 3For this is the will of God, that you be sanctified [separated and set apart from sin]: that you abstain and back away from sexual immorality; 4that each of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor [being available for God's purpose and separated from things profane], 5not [to be used] in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God and are ignorant of His will;6and that [in this matter of sexual misconduct] no man shall transgress and defraud his brother because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we have told you before and solemnly warned you. 7For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness [to be dedicated, and set apart by behavior that pleases Him, whether in public or in private]. 8So whoever rejects and disregards this is not [merely] rejecting man but the God who gives His Holy Spirit to you [to dwell in you and empower you to overcome temptation].

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
The LORD said, "What have you done? The voice of your brother's [innocent] blood is crying out to Me from the ground [for justice].
Genesis 4:11
"And now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's [shed] blood from your hand.
Genesis 31:2
Jacob noticed [a change in] the attitude of Laban, and saw that it was not friendly toward him as before.
Genesis 31:5
and he said to them, "I see [a change in] your father's attitude, that he is not friendly toward me as [he was] before; but the God of my father [Isaac] has been with me.
Numbers 16:15
Then Moses became very angry and said to the LORD, "Pay no attention to their offering! I have not taken one donkey from them, nor have I harmed any one of them."
Job 5:2
"For anger slays the foolish man, And jealousy kills the simple (naive).
Psalms 20:3
May He remember all your meal offerings And accept your burnt offering. Selah.
Matthew 20:15
'Am I not lawfully permitted to do what I choose with what is mine? Or is your eye envious because I am generous?'
Acts 13:45
But when the Jews saw the crowds, they were filled with jealousy and began contradicting the things said by Paul, and were slandering him.
Hebrews 11:4
By faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain, through which it was testified of him that he was righteous (upright, in right standing with God), and God testified by accepting his gifts. And though he died, yet through [this act of] faith he still speaks.

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.


 
adsfree-icon
Ads FreeProfile