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chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/niv/1_thessalonians/4.htm">New International Version</a></span><br />not in passionate lust like the pagans, who do not know God;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/1_thessalonians/4.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />not in lustful passion like the pagans who do not know God and his ways.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/1_thessalonians/4.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/1_thessalonians/4.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/blb/1_thessalonians/4.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a></span><br />not in <i>the</i> passion of lust, as also the Gentiles, not knowing God;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/1_thessalonians/4.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/1_thessalonians/4.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />not in passion of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/1_thessalonians/4.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/1_thessalonians/4.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/1_thessalonians/4.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/1_thessalonians/4.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/1_thessalonians/4.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />not [to be used] in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God <i>and</i> are ignorant of His will;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/1_thessalonians/4.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />not with lustful passions, like the Gentiles, who don’t know God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/1_thessalonians/4.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />not with lustful desires, like the Gentiles who don&#8217t know God. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/1_thessalonians/4.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/1_thessalonians/4.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Don't be a slave of your desires or live like people who don't know God. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/1_thessalonians/4.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles which know not God;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/1_thessalonians/4.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />not in the passionate, lustful way of people who don't know God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/1_thessalonians/4.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />not with a lustful desire, like the heathen who do not know God. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/1_thessalonians/4.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />not with passion and lust like the gentiles who do not know God. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/1_thessalonians/4.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/1_thessalonians/4.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/1_thessalonians/4.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />not in the passion of lust, even as the nations who do not know God;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/1_thessalonians/4.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles who know not God:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/1_thessalonians/4.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />that you be not overmastered by lustful cravings, like the Gentiles who have no knowledge of God;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/1_thessalonians/4.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God, <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/1_thessalonians/4.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/blb/1_thessalonians/4.htm">Berean Literal Bible</a></span><br />not in <i>the</i> passion of lust, as also the Gentiles, not knowing God;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/1_thessalonians/4.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> not in the affection of desire, as also the nations that were not knowing God,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/1_thessalonians/4.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Not in the passion of eager desire, as also the nations not knowing God:<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/1_thessalonians/4.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Not in the passion of lust, like the Gentiles that know not God: <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/1_thessalonians/4.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />not in passions of lust, like the Gentiles who do not know God,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/1_thessalonians/4.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />not in lustful passion as do the Gentiles who do not know God;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/1_thessalonians/4.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />not with lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/1_thessalonians/4.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />And not through the passion of lust, even as the rest of the Gentiles who know not God:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/aramaic-plain-english/1_thessalonians/4.htm">Aramaic Bible in Plain English</a></span><br />And not in the passion of lust, as others of the Gentiles who do not know God;<div class="vheading2"><b>NT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/anderson/1_thessalonians/4.htm">Anderson New Testament</a></span><br />not in passionate desire, as the Gentiles do, who know not God;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/godbey/1_thessalonians/4.htm">Godbey New Testament</a></span><br />not in the passion of lust, as indeed the Gentiles who do not know God;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/haweis/1_thessalonians/4.htm">Haweis New Testament</a></span><br />not in the vile passion of lewdness, as the Gentiles which know not God;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/mace/1_thessalonians/4.htm">Mace New Testament</a></span><br />person unsullied by the vices of the Gentiles, who know not God:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wey/1_thessalonians/4.htm">Weymouth New Testament</a></span><br />that you be not overmastered by lustful cravings, like the Gentiles who have no knowledge of God;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/worrell/1_thessalonians/4.htm">Worrell New Testament</a></span><br />not in passion of desire, even as the gentiles, who know not God;<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/worsley/1_thessalonians/4.htm">Worsley New Testament</a></span><br />not in the passion of lust, like the heathens who know not God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/1_thessalonians/4-5.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sgDUoqNjFio?start=469" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/1_thessalonians/4.htm">Living to Please God</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">4</span>each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, <span class="reftext">5</span><span class="highl"><a href="/greek/3361.htm" title="3361: mē (Adv) -- Not, lest. A primary particle of qualified negation; not, lest; also (whereas ou expects an affirmative one) whether.">not</a> <a href="/greek/1722.htm" title="1722: en (Prep) -- In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; in, at, on, by, etc.">in</a> <a href="/greek/1939.htm" title="1939: epithymias (N-GFS) -- Desire, eagerness for, inordinate desire, lust. From epithumeo; a longing.">lustful</a> <a href="/greek/3806.htm" title="3806: pathei (N-DNS) -- Suffering, emotion, depraved passion, lust. From the alternate of pascho; properly, suffering, i.e. a passion.">passion</a> <a href="/greek/2509.htm" title="2509: kathaper (Adv) -- Even as, just as. From katha and per; exactly as.">like</a> <a href="/greek/2532.htm" title="2532: kai (Conj) -- And, even, also, namely. "></a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: ta (Art-NNP) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">the</a> <a href="/greek/1484.htm" title="1484: ethnē (N-NNP) -- Probably from etho; a race, i.e. A tribe; specially, a foreign one.">Gentiles</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: ta (Art-NNP) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.">who</a> <a href="/greek/3361.htm" title="3361: mē (Adv) -- Not, lest. A primary particle of qualified negation; not, lest; also (whereas ou expects an affirmative one) whether."></a> <a href="/greek/1492.htm" title="1492: eidota (V-RPA-NNP) -- To know, remember, appreciate. ">do not know</a> <a href="/greek/3588.htm" title="3588: ton (Art-AMS) -- The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the."></a> <a href="/greek/2316.htm" title="2316: Theon (N-AMS) -- A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.">God;</a> </span> <span class="reftext">6</span>and no one should ever violate or exploit his brother in this regard, because the Lord will avenge all such acts, as we have already told you and solemnly warned you.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/1-24.htm">Romans 1:24-27</a></span><br />Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another. / They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is forever worthy of praise! Amen. / For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ephesians/4-17.htm">Ephesians 4:17-19</a></span><br />So 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 of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts. / Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/colossians/3-5.htm">Colossians 3:5-7</a></span><br />Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry. / Because of these, the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience. / When you lived among them, you also used to walk in these ways.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/6-9.htm">1 Corinthians 6:9-11</a></span><br />Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who submit to or perform homosexual acts, / nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor verbal abusers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. / And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/galatians/5-19.htm">Galatians 5:19-21</a></span><br />The acts of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, and debauchery; / idolatry and sorcery; hatred, discord, jealousy, and rage; rivalries, divisions, factions, / and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_peter/4-3.htm">1 Peter 4:3-4</a></span><br />For 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. / Because of this, they consider it strange of you not to plunge with them into the same flood of reckless indiscretion, and they heap abuse on you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/5-9.htm">1 Corinthians 5:9-11</a></span><br />I wrote you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people. / I was not including the sexually immoral of this world, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. / But now I am writing you not to associate with anyone who claims to be a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a verbal abuser, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_corinthians/12-21.htm">2 Corinthians 12:21</a></span><br />I am afraid that when I come again, my God will humble me before you, and I will be grieved over many who have sinned earlier and have not repented of their acts of impurity, sexual immorality, and debauchery.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/13-13.htm">Romans 13:13-14</a></span><br />Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. / Instead, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the desires of the flesh.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ephesians/5-3.htm">Ephesians 5:3-5</a></span><br />But among you, as is proper among the saints, there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed. / Nor should there be obscenity, foolish talk, or crude joking, which are out of character, but rather thanksgiving. / For of this you can be sure: No immoral, impure, or greedy person (that is, an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_john/2-15.htm">1 John 2:15-17</a></span><br />Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. / For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh, the desires of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not from the Father but from the world. / The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/5-27.htm">Matthew 5:27-28</a></span><br />You have heard that it was said, ‘Do not commit adultery.’ / But I tell you that anyone who looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/mark/7-21.htm">Mark 7:21-23</a></span><br />For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery, / greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness. / All these evils come from within, and these are what defile a man.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/james/1-14.htm">James 1:14-15</a></span><br />But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed. / Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/6-25.htm">Proverbs 6:25-29</a></span><br />Do not lust in your heart for her beauty or let her captivate you with her eyes. / For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life. / Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned? ...</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:</p><p class="hdg">in the.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/romans/1-24.htm">Romans 1:24,26</a></b></br> Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/colossians/3-5.htm">Colossians 3:5</a></b></br> Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:</p><p class="hdg">as the.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/matthew/6-32.htm">Matthew 6:32</a></b></br> (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/luke/12-30.htm">Luke 12:30</a></b></br> For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ephesians/4-17.htm">Ephesians 4:17-19</a></b></br> This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, … </p><p class="hdg">know.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/acts/17-23.htm">Acts 17:23,30,31</a></b></br> For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/romans/1-28.htm">Romans 1:28</a></b></br> And even as they did not like to retain God in <i>their</i> knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/1_corinthians/1-21.htm">1 Corinthians 1:21</a></b></br> For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/1_thessalonians/2-8.htm">Affection</a> <a href="/colossians/3-5.htm">Concupiscence</a> <a href="/ephesians/2-3.htm">Cravings</a> <a href="/1_thessalonians/3-1.htm">Desire</a> <a href="/1_thessalonians/4-3.htm">Desires</a> <a href="/1_thessalonians/3-5.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/1_thessalonians/2-16.htm">Gentiles</a> <a href="/galatians/3-8.htm">Heathen</a> <a href="/ephesians/4-19.htm">Lust</a> <a href="/colossians/3-11.htm">Nations</a> <a href="/colossians/3-8.htm">Passion</a> <a href="/colossians/3-8.htm">Passionate</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/2_timothy/3-3.htm">Affection</a> <a href="/romans/7-8.htm">Concupiscence</a> <a href="/2_timothy/2-22.htm">Cravings</a> <a href="/1_thessalonians/4-10.htm">Desire</a> <a href="/1_timothy/1-10.htm">Desires</a> <a href="/1_thessalonians/5-15.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/1_timothy/2-7.htm">Gentiles</a> <a href="/3_john/1-7.htm">Heathen</a> <a href="/james/1-14.htm">Lust</a> <a href="/1_timothy/2-7.htm">Nations</a> <a href="/james/1-15.htm">Passion</a> <a href="/titus/1-7.htm">Passionate</a><div class="vheading2">1 Thessalonians 4</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-1.htm">He exhorts them to go forward in all manner of godliness;</a></span><br><span class="reftext">6. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-6.htm">to live holily and justly;</a></span><br><span class="reftext">9. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-9.htm">to love one another;</a></span><br><span class="reftext">11. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-11.htm">and quietly to follow their own business;</a></span><br><span class="reftext">13. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-13.htm">and last of all, to sorrow moderately for the dead.</a></span><br><span class="reftext">17. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-17.htm">followed by a brief description of the resurrection, and second coming of Christ to judgment.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading"><a href="/study/1_thessalonians/4.htm">Berean Study Bible</a></div><b>not in lustful passion</b><br />The phrase "not in lustful passion" calls believers to a standard of purity and self-control. The Greek word for "lustful" is "pathos," which can denote a strong emotion or passion, often with a negative connotation when it leads to sin. In the context of the Greco-Roman world, where sexual immorality was rampant and often even celebrated, this command stands in stark contrast. The Apostle Paul is urging the Thessalonian Christians to live differently from the surrounding culture, emphasizing that their bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit (<a href="/1_corinthians/6-19.htm">1 Corinthians 6:19-20</a>). This call to holiness is not merely about abstaining from physical acts but also about cultivating a heart and mind that honors God.<p><b>like the Gentiles</b><br />The term "Gentiles" here refers to those who are outside the covenant community of Israel and, by extension, those who do not follow the teachings of Christ. In the first-century context, Gentiles were often associated with pagan practices and idolatry, which frequently included sexual immorality as part of their religious rituals. Paul is drawing a clear line between the behavior expected of believers and that of the non-believing world. This distinction is not meant to foster a sense of superiority but to remind Christians of their calling to be set apart, a holy nation (<a href="/1_peter/2-9.htm">1 Peter 2:9</a>), living lives that reflect the character of God.<p><b>who do not know God</b><br />The phrase "who do not know God" highlights the root cause of the behavior Paul is admonishing. To "know God" in the biblical sense is not merely intellectual acknowledgment but involves a relational and experiential understanding of His nature and will. The lack of this knowledge among the Gentiles results in a lifestyle that is contrary to God's design. In the Hebrew tradition, to know God is to walk in His ways, to live in obedience to His commandments, and to reflect His holiness. Paul is reminding the Thessalonians that their knowledge of God should manifest in their conduct, setting them apart from those who live without this divine relationship. This knowledge is transformative, leading believers to live in a way that honors God and aligns with His purposes.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/1_thessalonians/4.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(5) <span class= "bld">Not in the lust of concupiscence, </span>for such a method of using one's faculties, such an attempt to acquire mastery of vital powers, is really to abandon them altogether to others. This notion is involved in the very word here translated "lust," which is more often rendered "passion," and implies something which <span class= "ital">befalls</span> a man, something <span class= "ital">done to</span> him: "Not in the helpless passivity of concupiscence" or uncontrolled desire.<p><span class= "bld">The Gentiles which know not God.</span>--Mind the punctuation. The readers of the letter were "Gentiles which <span class= "ital">knew</span> God." Their brother Thessalonians. are held up to them as melancholy examples of men who are trying in the wrong way to show their power over themselves. Remark that this is not one of the crimes which he alleges against Jews.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/1_thessalonians/4.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 5.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Not in the lust of concupiscence</span> <span class="accented">- not in the passion of lust</span> (R.V.) - <span class="cmt_word">even as the Gentiles which know not God</span>; and therefore from whom nothing better was to be expected. The moral sense of the heathen was so perverted, and their natures so corrupt, that they looked upon fornication as a thing indifferent. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/1_thessalonians/4-5.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Greek</div><span class="word">not</span><br /><span class="grk">μὴ</span> <span class="translit">(mē)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3361.htm">Strong's 3361: </a> </span><span class="str2">Not, lest. A primary particle of qualified negation; not, lest; also (whereas ou expects an affirmative one) whether.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in</span><br /><span class="grk">ἐν</span> <span class="translit">(en)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_1722.htm">Strong's 1722: </a> </span><span class="str2">In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">lustful</span><br /><span class="grk">ἐπιθυμίας</span> <span class="translit">(epithymias)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_1939.htm">Strong's 1939: </a> </span><span class="str2">Desire, eagerness for, inordinate desire, lust. From epithumeo; a longing.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">passion</span><br /><span class="grk">πάθει</span> <span class="translit">(pathei)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - Dative Neuter Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3806.htm">Strong's 3806: </a> </span><span class="str2">Suffering, emotion, depraved passion, lust. From the alternate of pascho; properly, suffering, i.e. a passion.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">like</span><br /><span class="grk">καθάπερ</span> <span class="translit">(kathaper)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_2509.htm">Strong's 2509: </a> </span><span class="str2">Even as, just as. From katha and per; exactly as.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the</span><br /><span class="grk">τὰ</span> <span class="translit">(ta)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article - Nominative Neuter Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> </span><span class="str2">The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Gentiles</span><br /><span class="grk">ἔθνη</span> <span class="translit">(ethnē)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - Nominative Neuter Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_1484.htm">Strong's 1484: </a> </span><span class="str2">Probably from etho; a race, i.e. A tribe; specially, a foreign one.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">who</span><br /><span class="grk">τὰ</span> <span class="translit">(ta)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article - Nominative Neuter Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> </span><span class="str2">The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the.</span><br /><br /><span class="word">do not know</span><br /><span class="grk">εἰδότα</span> <span class="translit">(eidota)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Perfect Participle Active - Nominative Neuter Plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_1492.htm">Strong's 1492: </a> </span><span class="str2">To know, remember, appreciate. </span><br /><br /><span class="word">God;</span><br /><span class="grk">Θεόν</span> <span class="translit">(Theon)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - Accusative Masculine Singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/greek/strongs_2316.htm">Strong's 2316: </a> </span><span class="str2">A deity, especially the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very.</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/1_thessalonians/4-5.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:5 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/1_thessalonians/4-5.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:5 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/1_thessalonians/4-5.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:5 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/1_thessalonians/4-5.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:5 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/1_thessalonians/4-5.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:5 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/1_thessalonians/4-5.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:5 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/1_thessalonians/4-5.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:5 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/1_thessalonians/4-5.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:5 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/1_thessalonians/4-5.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:5 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/1_thessalonians/4-5.htm">1 Thessalonians 4:5 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-5.htm">NT Letters: 1 Thessalonians 4:5 Not in the passion of lust even (1 Thess. 1 Thes. 1Th iTh i Th)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-4.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="1 Thessalonians 4:4"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="1 Thessalonians 4:4" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/1_thessalonians/4-6.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="1 Thessalonians 4:6"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="1 Thessalonians 4:6" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>