Do not quench the Spirit,
Parallel translations
- WEB Don’t quench the Spirit.
- KJV Quench not the Spirit.
- BSB Do not extinguish the Spirit.
- NKJV 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 4:30Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
- Acts 7:51“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
- 2 Tim 1:6For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands.
- 1 Tim 4:14Don’t neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders.
- Isa 63:10But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit. Therefore he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them.
- Ps 51:11Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your holy Spirit from me.
- Neh 9:30Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet would they not give ear. Therefore you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
- Gen 6:3Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”
- Eph 6:16above all, taking up the shield of faith, with which you will be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.
- 1 Cor 14:30But if a revelation is made to another sitting by, let the first keep silent.
- Song 8:7Many waters can’t quench love, neither can floods drown it. If a man would give all the wealth of his house for love, he would be utterly scorned.
- 1 Sam 16:4Samuel did that which Yahweh spoke, and came to Bethlehem. The elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, “Do you come peaceably?”
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