Cross references

1 Thessalonians 4:5

not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;

1 Thessalonians 4:5 BSB

1 Thessalonians 4:5 has 15 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Galatians 4:8 (8 votes) and Acts 17:30–31 (7 votes). 31 other verses point back to it. It links with 21 other books, from Leviticus 15 to Jude 1.

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Which verses does 1 Thessalonians 4:5 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.

  2. Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent. For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”

  3. So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts. …

  4. Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.

  5. in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

  6. For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.

  7. Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.

  8. Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God. I say this to your shame.

  9. remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

  10. For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.

  11. Luke 12:302 votes
  12. Acts 17:232 votes
  13. Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.

Which verses point to 1 Thessalonians 4:5?

The 10 strongest of 31.