Do not extinguish the Spirit.
Parallel translations
- WEB Don’t quench the Spirit.
- KJV Quench not the Spirit.
- NKJV Do not quench the Spirit.
- NASB Do not quench the Spirit,
- NLT Do not stifle the Holy Spirit.
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Quick answer
Believers must not quench the Holy Spirit's work, suppressing or hindering His activity among them.
Overview
"Quench" pictures putting out a fire, warning against stifling the Spirit's gifts and operations in the church. In context this connects to the next verse about prophecy, cautioning against extinguishing genuine Spirit-given ministry. The same Spirit who indwells believers is to be welcomed and obeyed, not resisted (Ephesians 4:30).
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Cross-references · 12
- Eph 4:30And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
- Acts 7:51You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
- 2 Tim 1:6For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
- 1 Tim 4:14Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given you through the prophecy spoken over you at the laying on of the hands of the elders.
- Isa 63:10But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.
- Ps 51:11Cast me not away from Your presence; take not Your Holy Spirit from me.
- Neh 9:30You were patient with them for many years, and Your Spirit admonished them through Your prophets. Yet they would not listen, so You gave them into the hands of the neighboring peoples.
- Gen 6:3So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”
- Eph 6:16In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.
- 1 Cor 14:30And if a revelation comes to someone who is seated, the first speaker should stop.
- Song 8:7Mighty waters cannot quench love; rivers cannot sweep it away. If a man were to give all the wealth of his house for love, his offer would be utterly scorned.
- 1 Sam 16:4So Samuel did what the LORD had said and went to Bethlehem. When the elders of the town met him, they trembled and asked, “Do you come in peace?”
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