Living to Please God

1 Thessalonians 4:8

In 9 translations

BSB: Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.
KJV: He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
WEB: Therefore he who rejects this doesn’t reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.
ASV: Therefore he that rejecteth, rejecteth not man, but God, who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you.
LSV: He, therefore, who is despising, does not despise man, but God, who also gave His Holy Spirit to us.
YLT: he, therefore, who is despising — doth not despise man, but God, who also did give His Holy Spirit to us.
DBY: He therefore that [in this] disregards [his brother], disregards, not man, but God, who has given also his Holy Spirit to you.Elohim
DRC: Therefore, he that despiseth these things, despiseth not man, but God, who also hath given his holy Spirit in us.
GNV: Hee therefore that despiseth these thinges, despiseth not man, but God who hath euen giuen you his holy Spirit.

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Where the editions differ

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In STEPBible’s comparison, NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Textus Receptus, Byzantine text include καὶ (“also”); Westcott–Hort, Tregelles do not include this wording.
NA28, NA27, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles read διδόντα (“giving”); Tyndale House, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text read δόντα (“having given”).
NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles, Byzantine text read ὑμᾶς.¶ (“you”); Textus Receptus read ἡμᾶς (“us”).

SBLGNT apparatus (2)

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SBLGNT: καὶ. Nestle–Aland 28th edition, Robinson–Pierpont read καὶ; Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles omit this wording.
SBLGNT: διδόντα. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read διδόντα; Robinson–Pierpont read δόντα.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT: τοιγαροῦν ὁ ἀθετῶν οὐκ ἄνθρωπον ἀθετεῖ ἀλλὰ τὸν θεὸν τὸν καὶ διδόντα τὸ πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ τὸ ἅγιον εἰς ὑμᾶς.
RP2018: Τοιγαροῦν ὁ ἀθετῶν οὐκ ἄνθρωπον ἀθετεῖ, ἀλλὰ τὸν θεὸν τὸν καὶ δόντα τὸ πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ τὸ ἅγιον εἰς ὑμᾶς.
TR-Boyd: Τοιγαροῦν ὁ ἀθετῶν οὐκ ἄνθρωπον ἀθετεῖ, ἀλλὰ τὸν Θεὸν τὸν καὶ δόντα τὸ πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ τὸ ἅγιον εἰς ἡμᾶς.
SCR1894: τοιγαρουν ο αθετων ουκ ανθρωπον αθετει αλλα τον θεον τον και δοντα το πνευμα αυτου το αγιον εις ημας

Who and where

👤 God 👤 Holy Spirit

People, places and events the Theographic dataset links to this verse.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

Holy Spirit Thessalonians, First Epistle to the Contempt Thessalonians, the First Epistle of Paul to the Salvation

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

1 John 3:24Whoever keeps His commandments remains in God, and God in him. And by this we know that He remains in us: by the Spirit He has given us.
Luke 10:16Whoever listens to you listens to Me; whoever rejects you rejects Me; and whoever rejects Me rejects the One who sent Me.”
1 Samuel 8:7And the LORD said to Samuel, “Listen to the voice of the people in all that they say to you. For it is not you they have rejected, but they have rejected Me as their king.
John 12:48There is a judge for the one who rejects Me and does not receive My words: The word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
Proverbs 23:9Do not speak to a fool, for he will despise the wisdom of your words.
Romans 5:5And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out His love into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, whom He has given us.
Proverbs 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
2 Peter 1:21For no such prophecy was ever brought forth by the will of man, but men spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit.
1 Corinthians 7:40In my judgment, however, she is happier if she remains as she is. And I think that I too have the Spirit of God.
Nehemiah 9:30You were patient with them for many years, and Your Spirit admonished them through Your prophets. Yet they would not listen, so You gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.
Galatians 4:6And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of His Son into our hearts, crying out, “Abba, Father!”
1 Samuel 10:19But today you have rejected your God, who saves you from all your troubles and afflictions, and you have said to Him, ‘No, set a king over us.’ Now therefore present yourselves before the LORD by your tribes and clans.”
Acts 5:3–4Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and withhold some of the proceeds from the land? Did it not belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, was…
Jude 1:8Yet in the same way these dreamers defile their bodies, reject authority, and slander glorious beings.
Acts 13:41‘Look, you scoffers, wonder and perish! For I am doing a work in your days that you would never believe, even if someone told you.’”
1 Peter 1:12It was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves, but you, when they foretold the things now announced by those who preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven. Even angels long to look…

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).