1 Thessalonians 4:5
Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
Context
This verse from 1 Thessalonians Chapter 4 connects to 10 cross-references. Instruction on sexual holiness: abstain from sexual immorality, controlling your own body in holiness and honor, not in passionate lust like the Gentiles. Concerning those who have died: we should not grieve as those without hope, for Jesus who died …
Other Translations
not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;
not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,
Not in the passion of evil desires, like the Gentiles, who have no knowledge of God;
Cross References
For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need …
Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom …
And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:
For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. …
Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.
Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord …
For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we …
(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all …
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate …