Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
despise not prophesying.
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,
American Standard Version
despise not prophesyings;
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.
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 prophesying. 21 Examine all things, and keep that which is good.
Cross References
1 Corinthians 11:4
Every man praying or prophesying having anything on his head, shameth his head.
1 Corinthians 14:1
Labour for love, and covet spiritual gifts: and most chiefly for to prophesy.
1 Corinthians 14:3-6
But he that prophesieth speaketh unto men, to edifying, to exhortation, and to comfort.
1 Corinthians 14:22-25
Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe: but to them that believe not. Contrariwise, prophesying serveth not for them that believe not: but for them which believe.
1 Corinthians 14:29-32
Let the prophets speak two at once, or three at once, and let others judge.
1 Corinthians 14:37-39
If any man think himself a prophet, either spiritual: let him understand what things I write unto you. For they are the commandments of the Lord.
Numbers 11:25-29
And the LORD came down in a cloud and spake unto him, and took of the spirit that was upon him, and put it upon the seventy elders. And as the spirit rested upon them, they prophesied and did nought else.
1 Samuel 10:5-6
After that, thou shalt come to the hill of God, where the Philistines keep their watch. And when thou art come thither to the city thou shalt meet a company of prophets coming down from the hill, with a psaltery, a timbrel, a pipe, and a harp before them; and they prophesying.
1 Samuel 10:10-13
When they came to the hill, behold, the company of prophets met him, and the spirit of God came upon him, and he prophesied among them.
1 Samuel 19:20-24
Then Saul sent messengers to fetch David. And when they saw a company of prophets prophesying and Samuel standing fast by them, the spirit of God fell upon the messengers of Saul, and they prophesied too.
Acts 19:6
And Paul laid his hands upon them: and the holy ghost came on them, and they spake with tongues and prophesied;
1 Corinthians 12:10
to another, power to do miracles; to another prophecy; to another, judgment of spirits; to another divers tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
1 Corinthians 12:28
And God hath also ordained in the congregation, first the apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, then them that do miracles; after that, the gifts of healing, helpers, governors, diversity of tongues.
1 Corinthians 13:2
And though I could prophesy, and understood all secrets, and all knowledge: yea, if I had all faith so that I could move mountains out of their places, and yet had no love, I were nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:9
For our knowledge is unperfect, and our prophesying is unperfect:
Ephesians 4:11-12
And the very same, made some Apostles, some Prophets, some Evangelists, some Shepherds, some Teachers:
1 Thessalonians 4:8
He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, which hath sent his holy spirit among you.
Revelation 11:3-11
"And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy one thousand two hundred and sixty days, clothed in sackcloth."