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the Week of Proper 9 / Ordinary 14
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Simplified Cowboy Version

1 Thessalonians 4:5

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.

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

Contextual Overview

1 As for some other things, we've taught y'all the fundamentals of how to ride for the Lord. But don't be satisfied with a little progress. Continue to grow and ride further every day. 2Y'all know everything we taught was straight from the Lord. Do it our way and you'll be doing it God's way. 3God wants for y'all to be top hands. He wants you to be holy. They are one and the same. You can't do that if you're working for the Lord during the day and visiting the whorehouse at night. 4A top hand controls his body and his desires. Be honorable and admirable in all that you do and at all times. 5Don'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. 6Only a wannabe cowboy would take advantage of someone and sell a lame horse. And I know you understand I ain't talking about trading horses. I'm talking about right living. Make no mistake, God is going to give out what they got coming. Take that as a warning. Don't learn this lesson the hard way when it's too late. 7God did not invite us in to talk big, but to ride hard. 8Anyone who scoffs at what I'm saying isn't rejecting me, but God himself. And it is the God who gives us all we need to accomplish his goals through the Holy Ghost.

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

Matthew 20:15
It is my money, isn't it? I can spend my money however I want. Or do I need to ask you how to spend it? Are you bein' jealous just because I am generous?'
Acts 13:45
But when some of the Jews saw how many people turned out, they became jealous. They started talking crap about Paul and argued with him over anything he said.
Hebrews 11:4
It was Abel's heapin' of faith that helped him bring a sacrifice to God that was worthy of what it was supposed to be. Cain's was not. Abel's sacrifice showed his faith in God and God showed his approval. Even though Abel has long been in the grave, his example 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.


 
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