1 Thessalonians 4:5

In 9 translations

BSB

not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;

KJV

Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

WEB

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,

ASV

not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;

LSV

not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

YLT

not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,

DBY

(not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God,)Elohim

DRC

Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles that know not God:

GNV

And not in the lust of concupiscence, euen as the Gentiles which know not God:

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT

μὴ ἐν πάθει ἐπιθυμίας καθάπερ καὶ τὰ ἔθνη τὰ μὴ εἰδότα τὸν θεόν,

RP2018

μὴ ἐν πάθει ἐπιθυμίας, καθάπερ καὶ τὰ ἔθνη τὰ μὴ εἰδότα τὸν θεόν·

TR-Boyd

μὴ ἐν πάθει ἐπιθυμίας, καθάπερ καὶ τὰ ἔθνη τὰ μὴ εἰδότα τὸν Θεόν·

SCR1894

μη εν παθει επιθυμιας καθαπερ και τα εθνη τα μη ειδοτα τον θεον

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Cross-references most cited first

• Galatians 4:8Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.
• Acts 17:30–31Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent. For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of…
• Ephesians 4:17–19So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because…
• Colossians 3:5Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
• 2 Thessalonians 1:8in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
• Romans 1:26For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.
• 1 Peter 4:3For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.
• 1 Corinthians 15:34Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God. I say this to your shame.
• Romans 1:28Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
• Ephesians 2:12remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
• Acts 17:23For as I walked around and examined your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore what you worship as something unknown, I now proclaim to you.
• Luke 12:30For the Gentiles of the world strive after all these things, and your Father knows that you need them.
• Matthew 6:32For the Gentiles strive after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
• Romans 1:24Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.
• 1 Corinthians 1:21For since in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom did not know Him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.

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