1 Thessalonians 4:5

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1 Thessalonians 4:5

Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:

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Romans 1:24

Colossians 3:5

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2 Thessalonians 1:8

Bible References

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Therefore God abandoned them to impurity, letting them follow the cravings of their hearts, till they dishonored their own bodies;

Therefore destroy all that is earthly in you--immorality, uncleanness, passions, evil desires, and that greed which is idolatry.

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All these are the things for which the nations are seeking, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.

These are the things for which all the nations of the world are seeking, and your Father knows that you need them.

This, then, as one in union with the Lord, I say to you and urge upon you: Do not continue to live such purposeless lives as the Gentiles live,

Surely in the past you have spent time enough living as the Gentiles delight to live. For your path has lain among scenes of debauchery, licentiousness, drunkenness, revelry, hard-drinking, and profane idolatry.

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For as I was going about, looking at your sacred shrines, I came upon an altar with this inscription--'To an Unknown God.' What, therefore, you worship in ignorance, that I am now proclaiming to you.

Then, as they would not keep God before their minds, God abandoned them to depraved thoughts, so that they did all kinds of shameful things.

For since the world, in God's wisdom, did not by its philosophy learn to know God, God saw fit, by the 'folly' of our proclamation, to save those who believe in Christ!

Awake to a righteous life, and cease to sin. There are some who have no true knowledge of God. I speak in this way to shame you.

Yet formerly, in your ignorance of God, you became slaves to 'gods' which were no gods.

Remember that you were at that time far from Christ; you were shut out from the citizenship of Israel; you were strangers to the Covenants founded on God's Promise; you were in the world without hope and without God.

Then he will 'inflict punishment upon those who refuse to know God, and upon those who turn a deaf ear' to the Good News of Jesus, our Lord.