1 Thessalonians 4:5

³ For it is God’s will that you should be holy: You must abstain from sexual immorality;

⁴ each of you must know how to control his own body in holiness and honor,

not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;

⁶ and no one should ever violate or exploit his brother in this regard, because the Lord will avenge all such acts, as we have already told you and solemnly warned you.

⁷ For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God;
KJV: Not in the lust of concupiscence, even as the Gentiles which know not God:
WEB: not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don’t know God,
ASV: not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who know not God;
DARBY: (not in passionate desire, even as the nations who know not God,)
BLB: not in the passion of lust just as also the Gentiles, those not knowing God;

ÅB: ikke i lystens brynde, som hedningene, som ikke kjenner Gud;
OTB: ikke i lidenskapelige begjær, som de som ikke kjenner Gud;
B1930: ikke i lystens brynde, som hedningene, som ikke kjenner Gud;

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Galatians 4:8
Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.
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Acts 17:30–31
Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent.
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Ephesians 4:17–19
So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
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Colossians 3:5
Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
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2 Thessalonians 1:8
in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
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1 Corinthians 15:34
Sober up as you ought, and stop sinning; for some of you are ignorant of God. I say this to your shame.
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Ephesians 2:12
remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
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Romans 1:28
Furthermore, since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them up to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
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