Quench not the Spirit.
Parallel translations
- WEB Don’t quench the Spirit.
- BSB Do not extinguish 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).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 12
- Eph 4:30And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.
- Acts 7:51Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
- 2 Tim 1:6Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.
- 1 Tim 4:14Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
- Isa 63:10But they rebelled, and vexed his holy Spirit: therefore he was turned to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
- Ps 51:11Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.
- Neh 9:30Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.
- Gen 6:3And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
- Eph 6:16Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.
- 1 Cor 14:30If any thing be revealed to another that sitteth by, let the first hold his peace.
- Song 8:7Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.
- 1 Sam 16:4And Samuel did that which the LORD spake, and came to Bethlehem. And the elders of the town trembled at his coming, and said, Comest thou peaceably?
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