1 Thessalonians 4:5

Believers are not to live in lustful passion like those who do not know God. Knowing God should change how one handles desire.

Cross-references · 15

• Gal 4:8However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.
• Acts 17:30–31The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,
• Eph 4:17–19This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
• 2 Th 1:8giving vengeance to those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,
• Col 3:5Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
• Eph 2:12that you 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.
• Rom 1:26For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.
• Rom 1:28Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
• 1 Pet 4:3For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.
• 1 Cor 15:34Wake up righteously, and don’t sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.
• Rom 1:24Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,
• Matt 6:32For the Gentiles seek after all these things; for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.
• Luke 12:30For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.
• Acts 17:23For 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 you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you.
• 1 Cor 1:21For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn’t know God, it was God’s good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

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