Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
despise not prophesyings;
New American Standard Bible
do not despise
King James Version
Despise not prophesyings.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
Do not despise prophecies.
A Conservative Version
Do not disdain prophecies,
Amplified
Do not scorn or reject gifts of prophecy or prophecies [spoken revelations—words of instruction or exhortation or warning].
An Understandable Version
Do not look down on prophetic messages.
Anderson New Testament
Despise not prophesyings.
Bible in Basic English
Do not make little of the words of the prophets;
Common New Testament
do not despise prophecies.
Daniel Mace New Testament
don't despise the prophetic gift.
Darby Translation
do not lightly esteem prophecies;
Godbey New Testament
despise not prophesying;
Goodspeed New Testament
Do not disregard the utterances it inspires,
John Wesley New Testament
Despise not prophesyings.
Julia Smith Translation
Set not prophecies at nought.
King James 2000
Despise not prophesying.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Do not despise prophecies,
Modern King James verseion
Do not despise prophesying.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
despise not prophesying.
Moffatt New Testament
never disdain prophetic revelations
Montgomery New Testament
Do not despise prophesyings.
NET Bible
Do not treat prophecies with contempt.
New Heart English Bible
Do not treat prophecies with contempt,
Noyes New Testament
despise not prophesyings,
Sawyer New Testament
despise not prophecies.
The Emphasized Bible
Prophesyings, do not despise,
Thomas Haweis New Testament
Despise not prophesyings.
Twentieth Century New Testament
Do not make light of preaching.
Webster
Despise not prophesyings.
Weymouth New Testament
Do not think meanly of utterances of prophecy;
Williams New Testament
Stop treating the messages of prophecy with contempt,
World English Bible
Don't despise prophesies.
Worrell New Testament
Despise not prophesyings;
Worsley New Testament
Slight not prophesyings:
Youngs Literal Translation
prophesyings despise not;
Themes
Despisement » What not to despise
Duty » Daily » Select readings ro 12; 1th 515-28
Miracles » Miraculous gifts of the holy spirit » Or despised
Miraculous gifts of the holy ghost » Were not to be » Despised
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 37 Translations in 1 Thessalonians 5:20
Verse Info
Context Readings
Final Exhortations And Benediction
19 Quench not the Spirit; 20 despise not prophesyings; 21 prove all things; hold fast that which is good;
Cross References
1 Corinthians 11:4
Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoreth his head.
1 Corinthians 14:1
Follow after love; yet desire earnestly spiritual gifts , but rather that ye may prophesy.
1 Corinthians 14:3-6
But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men edification, and exhortation, and consolation.
1 Corinthians 14:22-25
Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to the unbelieving: but prophesying is for a sign , not to the unbelieving, but to them that believe.
1 Corinthians 14:29-32
And let the prophets speak by two or three, and let the others discern.
1 Corinthians 14:37-39
If any man thinketh himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him take knowledge of the things which I write unto you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.
Numbers 11:25-29
And Jehovah came down in the cloud, and spake unto him, and took of the Spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy elders: and it came to pass, that, when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.
1 Samuel 10:5-6
After that thou shalt come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall come to pass, when thou art come thither to the city, that thou shalt meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a timbrel, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they will be prophesying:
1 Samuel 10:10-13
And when they came thither to the hill, behold, a band of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came mightily upon him, and he prophesied among them.
1 Samuel 19:20-24
And Saul sent messengers to take David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, the Spirit of God came upon the messengers of Saul, and they also prophesied.
Acts 19:6
And when Paul had laid his hands upon them, the Holy Spirit came on them; and they spake with tongues, and prophesied.
1 Corinthians 12:10
and to another workings of miracles; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; and to another the interpretation of tongues:
1 Corinthians 12:28
And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, divers kinds of tongues.
1 Corinthians 13:2
And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:9
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part;
Ephesians 4:11-12
And he gave some to be apostles; and some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teachers;
1 Thessalonians 4:8
Therefore he that rejecteth, rejecteth not man, but God, who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you.
Revelation 11:3-11
And I will give unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.