Parallel Verses
Sawyer New Testament
despise not prophecies.
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.
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,
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 prophecies. 21 Prove all things, hold fast the good;
Cross References
1 Corinthians 11:4
Every man praying or prophesying with his head covered disgraces his head.
1 Corinthians 14:1
Cherish love, and be earnestly desirous of spiritual gifts, but rather that you may prophesy.
1 Corinthians 14:3-6
but he that prophesies speaks to men to edification and exhortation and consolation.
1 Corinthians 14:22-25
Tongues therefore are a sign, not for believers but for unbelievers, but prophecy is not for unbelievers but for believers.
1 Corinthians 14:29-32
Let two or three prophets speak, and let the rest judge;
1 Corinthians 14:37-39
If any one thinks he is a prophet, or a spiritual man, let him acknowledge the [things] which I write to you, that they are the Lord's;
Acts 19:6
and Paul putting his hands on them, the Holy Spirit came on them, and they spoke with tongues and prophesied.
1 Corinthians 12:10
and to another the performance of mighty works, and to another prophecy, and to another discrimination of spirits, and to another different tongues, and to another an interpretation of tongues;
1 Corinthians 12:28
And God has set some in the church, first apostles, secondly prophets, thirdly teachers, then powers, then gifts of performing cures, aids, governments, different tongues.
1 Corinthians 13:2
And if I have prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, and have not love, I am nothing.
1 Corinthians 13:9
And we know in part and we prophesy in part;
Ephesians 4:11-12
And he gave some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers,
1 Thessalonians 4:8
He therefore that despises, despises not man, but God, who also gives us his Holy Spirit.
Revelation 11:3-11
And I will give charge to my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy twelve hundred and sixty days [three years and a half] clothed with sackcloth.