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1 Thessalonians 4:8
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Consequently, anyone who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.
He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also giuen vnto vs his holy Spirit.
Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
Therefore, the one who rejects this is not rejecting man, but the God who gives His Holy Spirit to you.
So the person who refuses to obey this teaching is disobeying God, not simply a human teaching. And God is the One who gives us his Holy Spirit.
So, he who rejects this is not rejecting man but the God who gives His Holy Spirit to you.
Consequently, he who sets this aside is not setting aside man but the God who gives His Holy Spirit to you.
Anyone, then, who rejects this command does not reject man but God, the very One who gives you His Holy Spirit.
So if you don't obey these rules, you are not really disobeying us. You are disobeying God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.
Therefore, whoever rejects this teaching is rejecting not a man but God, indeed, the One who gives you the Ruach HaKodesh, which is his.
He therefore that [in this] disregards [his brother], disregards, not man, but God, who has given also his Holy Spirit to you.
So anyone who refuses to obey this teaching is refusing to obey God, not us. And God is the one who gives you his Holy Spirit.
Hee therefore that despiseth these thinges, despiseth not man, but God who hath euen giuen you his holy Spirit.
Therefore, he who does an injustice, does not wrong man but God who has also given unto you his Holy Spirit.
So then, whoever rejects this teaching is not rejecting a human being, but God, who gives you his Holy Spirit.
Therefore the one who rejects this is not rejecting man, but God, who also gives his Holy Spirit to you.
Therefore, the one that despises does not despise man, but God, even He giving His Holy Spirit to us.
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].
Therefore he that rejecteth, rejecteth not man, but God, who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you.
Whoever, then, goes against this word, goes against not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
Therefore he who rejects, doesn't reject man, but God, who has also given his Ruach HaKodesh to you.
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He therefore who spurneth, spurneth not man but God, who hath given his Holy Spirit in you.
He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath geuen to you his holy spirite.
Therefore he that rejecteth, rejecteth not man, but God, who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you.
Therefore he who rejects, doesn't reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.
He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man but God; who hath also given you his Holy Spirit.
Therefore a defiant spirit in such a case provokes not man but God, who puts His Holy Spirit into your hearts.
Therfor he that dispisith these thingis, dispisith not man, but God, that also yaf his holi spirit in vs.
Therefore he that rejects, rejects not man, but God, who also gives his Holy Spirit to you.
He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given to us his holy Spirit.
Consequently the one who rejects this is not rejecting human authority but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
Therefore he who rejects this does not reject man, but God, who has also given [fn] us His Holy Spirit.
Therefore, anyone who refuses to live by these rules is not disobeying human teaching but is rejecting God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
The one who turns away from this teaching does not turn away from man, but from God. It is God Who has given us His Holy Spirit.
Therefore whoever rejects this rejects not human authority but God, who also gives his Holy Spirit to you.
Therefore, indeed, he that disregardeth - it is, not a man, he disregardeth, but God, - Who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you.
Therefore, he that despiseth these things, despiseth not man, but God, who also hath given his holy Spirit in us.
Therefore whoever disregards this, disregards not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
He therfore that despiseth despiseth not man but God which hath sent his holy sprete amonge you.
he, therefore, who is despising -- doth not despise man, but God, who also did give His Holy Spirit to us.
He therfore that despyseth, despyseth not man, but God, which hath geuen his holy sprete in to you.
he therefore that violates these precepts, does not despise man, but God, who has endued me with his holy spirit.
If you disregard this advice, you're not offending your neighbors; you're rejecting God, who is making you a gift of his Holy Spirit.
Anyone who scoffs at what I'm saying isn't rejecting me, but God himself. And it is the God who gives us all we need to accomplish his goals through the Holy Ghost.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
despiseth: or, rejecteth, 1 Samuel 8:7, 1 Samuel 10:19, John 12:48
despiseth not: Proverbs 1:7, Proverbs 23:9, Isaiah 49:7, Isaiah 53:10, Luke 10:16, Acts 13:41, Jude 1:8
who: Nehemiah 9:30, Acts 5:3, Acts 5:4, 1 Corinthians 2:10, 1 Corinthians 7:40, 1 Peter 1:12, 2 Peter 1:21, 1 John 3:24
Reciprocal: Exodus 16:8 - but against Leviticus 26:15 - despise Numbers 11:17 - I will take Numbers 11:20 - despised Numbers 12:8 - were ye Numbers 15:31 - despised Deuteronomy 17:12 - the priest Deuteronomy 33:11 - smite 2 Samuel 12:10 - because 1 Chronicles 19:6 - had made 2 Chronicles 36:16 - despised Psalms 10:13 - contemn Proverbs 5:13 - General Isaiah 5:24 - despised Isaiah 30:12 - Because Jeremiah 23:17 - that despise Jeremiah 35:15 - I have Jeremiah 37:2 - neither Ezekiel 20:13 - and they Amos 2:4 - because Malachi 2:7 - the messenger Matthew 10:14 - whosoever Matthew 10:40 - He that Matthew 16:19 - and whatsoever Matthew 18:10 - heed Mark 9:37 - receive me Luke 9:48 - Whosoever shall receive this John 13:20 - He John 14:26 - Holy Ghost Acts 15:28 - it 1 Corinthians 4:10 - but we 1 Corinthians 9:8 - as 1 Corinthians 16:11 - no 2 Corinthians 5:20 - in Galatians 4:14 - ye 1 Thessalonians 5:20 - General 2 Thessalonians 3:14 - obey 1 Timothy 6:3 - the words 2 Timothy 3:3 - despisers 1 Peter 1:22 - unto
Cross-References
And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord .
And the Lord said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?
And the Lord said unto Cain, Where is Abel thy brother? And he said, I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?
And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood crieth unto me from the ground.
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
And the Lord said unto him, Therefore whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold. And the Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.
If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.
And to Seth, to him also there was born a son; and he called his name Enos: then began men to call upon the name of the Lord .
And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.
And thy handmaid had two sons, and they two strove together in the field, and there was none to part them, but the one smote the other, and slew him.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
He therefore that despiseth,.... The Vulgate Latin adds, "these things"; these exhortations now delivered, the commandments given by the Lord Jesus Christ, and the will of God above declared; he that rejects these things with contempt, takes no notice of them, and acts not according to them,
despiseth not man; not men only, the apostles of Christ, and ministers of the Gospel; for, by despising these exhortations, they themselves were despised, though not alone: but God; Father, Son, and Spirit; God the Father, whose will was their sanctification, even to abstain from fornication, and every act of uncleanness, which, if not attended to, was a despising of him; and the Lord Jesus Christ, by whom, and for whose sake they were entreated and exhorted, and in whose name, and by whose authority the apostle gave them these commandments; wherefore to slight them, was to slight Jesus Christ himself; and, by the way, this is a proof of the true and proper deity of Christ. Moreover, such despisers also, in some sense, do despite unto the spirit of grace, by whom the apostles spake, or who spoke in them these things, as follows,
who hath also given unto us his Holy Spirit; as he did to the prophets of the Old Testament, and therefore what they said was equally by divine inspiration of God; and hence despising them, was despising the Spirit of God that spake by them. The Syriac and Arabic versions read, "who hath given unto you his Holy Spirit"; and so all Stephens's copies; which furnishes out a fresh reason or argument, dissuading from uncleanness, since God had given them his "Spirit" to convince them of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment, so that they were not ignorant of the things warned against; and he had given them his Spirit as an "holy" Spirit, as a Spirit of sanctification, to begin and carry on that work in them, to which uncleanness was very opposite; and he had given his Spirit unto, or "into" them, to dwell in them, as in his temple, and therefore should be careful not to defile it; and to cause them to walk in his statutes, and to assist them to keep his judgments, and do them, and as an earnest of their inheritance, and a sealer of them up unto the day of redemption; wherefore it became them not to grieve him by an impure life; and they were laid under obligations to live in the Spirit, and to walk after him, and not after the flesh.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He therefore that despiseth - Margin, “rejecteth.” That is, he who disregards such commands as these which call him to a holy life, is really rejecting and disobeying God. Some might be disposed to say that these were merely the precepts of man, and that therefore it was not important whether they were obeyed or not. The apostle assures them in the most solemn manner, that, though communicated to them by man, yet they were really the commands of God.
Who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit - This is a claim to inspiration. Paul did not give these commands as his own, but as taught by the Spirit of God; compare notes on 1 Corinthians 7:40.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse 8. He therefore that despiseth — He who will not receive these teachings, and is led either to undervalue or despise them, despises not us but God, from whom we have received our commission, and by whose Spirit we give these directions. See Clarke's note on 1 Thessalonians 4:15.
Hath also given unto us his Holy Spirit. — Instead of εις ημας, unto US, εις υμας, unto YOU, is the reading of BDEFG, a great many others, the Syriac, all the Arabic, Armenian, later Syriac in the margin, some of the Itala, Clement, Didymus, and Ambrosiaster; this seems to be the better reading. God has taught us that we may teach you; and he has also given you his Holy Spirit that ye might understand and be enabled to practise these things. It is one thing to receive a revelation from the Spirit of God; it is another thing to receive that Spirit to enable a man to live according to that revelation. In the first sense the apostles alone received this Holy Spirit; in the latter sense all true Christians, as well as the Thessalonians, receive it. I think υμας, you, is the true reading, and that it is confirmed by the following verse: For ye yourselves are TAUGHT OF GOD to love one another. Griesbach has inserted it in the margin, but has not admitted it into the text, because it has not what he deemed full support from those MSS. which are of the Alexandrian recension; but he thought its genuineness very probable.
