Bible verse
not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
1 Thessalonians 4:5 · BSB
The verses around it, from 1 Thessalonians 4.
1 Finally, brothers, we ask and encourage you in the Lord Jesus to live in a way that is pleasing to God, just as you have received from us. This is how you already live, so you should do so all the more.
2 For you know the instructions we gave you by the authority of the Lord Jesus.
3 For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;
4 each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,
5 not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
6 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.
7 For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.
8 Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.
9 Now about brotherly love, you do not need anyone to write to you, because you yourselves have been taught by God to love one another.
KJV
Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
ASV
not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;
ERV
not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles which know not God;
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