1 Thessalonians 4:5

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μὴ ἐν πάθει ἐπιθυμίας, καθάπερ καὶ τὰ Ἔθνη τὰ μὴ εἰδότα τὸν Θεόν:

Transliteration

Not in pathei of epithymias, just as also the Ethnē the not eidota the Theon:

Grammar Details

*pathei*: dative, neuter, singular - passion/suffering (locative)
*epithymias*: genitive, feminine, singular - lust/desire/craving (possessive)
*Ethnē*: nominative, neuter, plural - Gentiles/nations/pagans
*eidota*: perfect, participle, active, nominative, neuter, plural - knowing (with present meaning)
*Theon*: accusative, masculine, singular - God (direct object)

Word Meanings

*pathei*: passion/suffering/emotion/experience
*epithymias*: lust/desire/craving/longing
*Ethnē*: Gentiles/nations/pagans/non-Jews
*eidota*: knowing/understanding/recognizing

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Referenced Verses

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 {G5037} their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature:
Acts 17:30-31 : 30 {G3303} 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 {G979} may suffice {G2254} 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 {G3062} 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 {G2532} 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 {G1381} {G3756} 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.
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17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the {G3062} Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind,
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3But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;
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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.
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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.
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