1 Thessalonians 4:5

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Gal 4:8 : 8 Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to them that by nature are no gods:
  • Rom 1:26 : 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature:
  • Acts 17:30-31 : 30 The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked; but now he commandeth men that they should all everywhere repent: 31 inasmuch as he hath appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
  • 2 Thess 1:8 : 8 rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus:
  • 1 Pet 4:3 : 3 For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries:
  • Eph 2:12 : 12 that ye were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
  • Eph 4:17-19 : 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18 being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart; 19 who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
  • Col 3:5 : 5 Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
  • Rom 1:24 : 24 Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves:
  • Matt 6:32 : 32 For after all these things do the Gentiles seek; for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
  • Luke 12:30 : 30 For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: but your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.
  • Acts 17:23 : 23 For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription, TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. What therefore ye worship in ignorance, this I set forth unto you.
  • Rom 1:28 : 28 And even as they refused to have God in [their] knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
  • 1 Cor 1:21 : 21 For seeing that in the wisdom of God the world through its wisdom knew not God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save them that believe.
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Awake to soberness righteously, and sin not; for some have no knowledge of God: I speak [this] to move you to shame.

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    2For ye know what charge we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

    3For this is the will of God, [even] your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;

    4that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

  • Eph 4:17-20
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    17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind,

    18being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart;

    19who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

    20But ye did not so learn Christ;

  • Eph 5:3-7
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    3But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

    4nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, or jesting, which are not befitting: but rather giving of thanks.

    5For this ye know of a surety, that no fornicator, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

    6Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.

    7Be not ye therefore partakers with them;

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    6that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in the matter: because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.

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    2that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

    3For the time past may suffice to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries:

    4wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] into the same excess of riot, speaking evil of [you] :

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    5Put to death therefore your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

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    14as children of obedience, not fashioning yourselves according to your former lusts in [the time of] your ignorance:

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    13Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.

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    17Wherefore be ye not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

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    9Or know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with men,

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    9I wrote unto you in my epistle to have no company with fornicators;

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    19Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these] : fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

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    18Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

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    11Beloved, I beseech you as sojourners and pilgrims, to abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

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    24Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves:

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    15Know ye not that your bodies are members of Christ? shall I then take away the members of Christ, and make them members of a harlot? God forbid.

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    8Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to them that by nature are no gods:

  • Gal 5:16
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    16But I say, walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

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    5For neither at any time were we found using words of flattery, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness, God is witness;

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    12Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey the lusts thereof:

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    1It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that one [of you] hath his father's wife.

  • Col 4:5
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    5Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

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    6Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

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    19These are they who make separations, sensual, having not the Spirit.

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    4For there are certain men crept in privily, [even] they who were of old written of beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.