Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Therefore he who disregards, disregards not man, but God, who also gave his Holy Spirit to you.
New American Standard Bible
So, he who rejects this is not rejecting man but the God who
King James Version
He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
Holman Bible
Therefore, the person who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who also gives you His Holy Spirit.
International Standard Version
Therefore, whoever rejects this instruction is not rejecting human authority but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.
American Standard Version
Therefore he that rejecteth, rejecteth not man, but God, who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you.
Amplified
So whoever rejects and disregards this is not [merely] rejecting man but the God who gives His Holy Spirit to you [to dwell in you and empower you to overcome temptation].
An Understandable Version
So, the person who rejects [this exhortation] is not [merely] rejecting what man says but God [Himself], who gives His Holy Spirit to you.
Anderson New Testament
Therefore, he that despises, despises not man, but God, who has given us his Holy Spirit.
Bible in Basic English
Whoever, then, goes against this word, goes against not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
Common New Testament
Therefore, he who rejects this instruction does not reject man but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.
Daniel Mace New Testament
he therefore that violates these precepts, does not despise man, but God, who has endued me with his holy spirit.
Darby Translation
He therefore that in this disregards his brother, disregards, not man, but God, who has given also his Holy Spirit to you.
Godbey New Testament
Therefore the one rejecting (sanctification), does not reject man, but God, who indeed gives to you his Holy Spirit.
Goodspeed New Testament
So whoever disregards this is not disregarding man, but God, who gives you his holy Spirit.
John Wesley New Testament
He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man but God; who hath also given you his Holy Spirit.
Julia Smith Translation
For surely therefore he despising, despises not man, but God, he also giving his holy Spirit for us.
King James 2000
He therefore that despises, despises not man, but God, who has also given unto us his Holy Spirit.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Therefore the one who rejects [this] [is] not rejecting man, but God, [who] also gives his Holy Spirit to you.
Modern King James verseion
Therefore he who despises does not despise man, but God, who also has given us His Holy Spirit.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, which hath sent his holy spirit among you.
Moffatt New Testament
hence, he who disregards this, disregards not man but the God who gave you his holy Spirit.
Montgomery New Testament
So that he who rejects this is not rejecting man, but the God who gave you his Holy Spirit.
NET Bible
Consequently the one who rejects this is not rejecting human authority but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
New Heart English Bible
Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.
Noyes New Testament
He therefore that rejecteth, rejecteth not man, but God, who also gave to you his Holy Spirit.
Sawyer New Testament
He therefore that despises, despises not man, but God, who also gives us his Holy Spirit.
The Emphasized Bible
Therefore, indeed, he that disregardeth - it is, not a man, he disregardeth, but God, - Who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Therefore he that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his Holy Spirit.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Therefore he who disregards this warning disregards, not man, but God who gives you his Holy Spirit.
Webster
He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given to us his holy Spirit.
Weymouth New Testament
Therefore a defiant spirit in such a case provokes not man but God, who puts His Holy Spirit into your hearts.
Williams New Testament
So whoever rejects this teaching is rejecting not man but God who continues to put His Spirit in you.
World English Bible
Therefore he who rejects this doesn't reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.
Worrell New Testament
Therefore, indeed, he that rejects, rejects not man, but God, Who giveth His Holy Spirit to you.
Worsley New Testament
He therefore who rejecteth us, rejecteth not man, but God; who hath given us his holy Spirit.
Youngs Literal Translation
he, therefore, who is despising -- doth not despise man, but God, who also did give His Holy Spirit to us.
Themes
Contempt » Of ministers, is a despising of God
Despisement » Who despises the lord
Despisement » Those that despise the commandments of the lord
Topics
Interlinear
Atheteo
Atheteo
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Thessalonians 4:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Appeal For Continuing Sanctification
7 For God did not call us to uncleanness, but in sanctification. 8 Therefore he who disregards, disregards not man, but God, who also gave his Holy Spirit to you. 9 But about brotherly love ye have no need to write to you, for ye yourselves are taught by God in order to love each other.
Cross References
1 John 3:24
And he who keeps his commandments abides in him, and he in him. And by this we know that he abides in us, from the Spirit that he gave us.
Luke 10:16
He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me.
1 Samuel 8:7
And LORD said to Samuel, Hearken to the voice of the people in all that they say to thee, for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.
1 Samuel 10:19
but ye have this day rejected your God who himself saves you out of all your calamities and your distresses, and ye have said to him, No, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before LORD by your tribes, and by y
Nehemiah 9:30
Yet many years thou bore with them, and testified against them by thy Spirit through thy prophets. Yet they would not give ear. Therefore thou gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.
Proverbs 1:7
The fear of LORD is the beginning of knowledge. The foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 1:7
The fear of LORD is the beginning of knowledge. The foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
Isaiah 49:7
Thus says LORD, the Redeemer of Israel, [and] his Holy One, to him whom man despises, to him whom the nation abhors, to a servant of rulers. Kings shall see and arise, rulers, and they shall worship, because of LORD who is faithful
Isaiah 53:10
Yet it pleased LORD to bruise him. He has put him to grief. When thou shall make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed. He shall prolong his days, and the pleasure of LORD shall prosper in his hand.
John 12:48
He who rejects me and does not receive my sayings, has that which judges him: the word that I spoke, that will judge him in the last day.
Acts 5:3-4
But Peter said, Ananias, why did Satan fill thy heart for thee to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back from the price of the land?
Acts 13:41
Behold, ye scoffers, and wonder, and perish, because I work a work in your days, which ye would, no, not believe, if some man should fully narrate it to you.
Romans 5:5
And hope does not disappoint, because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that was given to us.
1 Corinthians 2:10
But God disclosed it to us through his Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.
1 Corinthians 7:40
But she is more blessed if she remains this way according to my opinion. And I also seem to have Spirit of God.
Galatians 4:6
And because ye are sons, God sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.
1 Peter 1:12
To whom it was revealed, that they were serving not themselves, but you, those things that were now reported to you by those who preached good-news to you in Holy Spirit, which was sent forth from heaven, into which things heavenly
2 Peter 1:21
For no prophecy was ever brought by a will of man, but holy men of God spoke, being led by Holy Spirit.
Jude 1:8
Nevertheless in the same way also these men who dream, indeed defile flesh, and reject lordship, and speak evil of dignities.