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Modern King James verseion
not to go beyond and defraud his brother in this matter (because the Lord is the avenger concerning all these, as we also have forewarned you and testified).
New American Standard Bible
and that no man transgress and
King James Version
That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
Holman Bible
This means one must not transgress against and defraud
International Standard Version
Furthermore, you must never take advantage of or exploit a brother in this regard, because the Lord avenges all these things, just as we already told you and warned you.
A Conservative Version
not to transgress and to cheat his brother in the affair, because the Lord is vengeful about all these things, as also we forewarned you and solemnly testified.
American Standard Version
that no man transgress, and wrong his brother in the matter: because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.
Amplified
and that [in this matter of sexual misconduct] no man shall transgress and defraud his brother because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we have told you before and solemnly warned you.
An Understandable Version
And none of you should violate and exploit his brother [or sister] in such a matter. For the Lord will punish people for all these things, just as we told you before and warned you.
Anderson New Testament
That no one take advantage of or injure his brother in this matter; because the Lord takes vengeance for all such things, as we also told you before, and fully testified:
Bible in Basic English
And that no man may make attempts to get the better of his brother in business: for the Lord is the judge in all these things, as we said to you before and gave witness.
Common New Testament
and that no man transgress and wrong his brother in this matter because the Lord is the avenger in all these things, just as we also told you before and solemnly warned you.
Daniel Mace New Testament
that no man should be exorbitant, and behave contumeliously to his brother: because the Lord is the avenger of all such crimes, as we have formerly remonstrated to you.
Darby Translation
not overstepping the rights of and wronging his brother in the matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all these things, even as we also told you before, and have fully testified.
Godbey New Testament
that one should overreach and defraud his brother in a business transaction: because the Lord is the avenger concerning these things, as we indeed before told you and witnessed to you.
Goodspeed New Testament
No one is to wrong or defraud his brother in this matter, for the Lord avenges all such things, as we told you before, in the most solemn terms.
John Wesley New Testament
That none circumvent or defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger of all these things, as we have also told you before and testified.
Julia Smith Translation
Not to pass over and have the advantage over his brother in business: because the Lord just for all these, as we told you before and testified.
King James 2000
That no man transgress and wrong his brother in any matter: because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
Lexham Expanded Bible
not to transgress and to exploit his brother in the matter, because the Lord [is] the one who avenges concerning all these [things], just as also we told you beforehand and testified solemnly.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
that no man go too far and defraud his brother in bargaining, because the Lord is avenger of all such things: as we told you before time, and testified unto you.
Montgomery New Testament
That no man overreach or take advantage of his brother in such matters, because "the Lord takes vengeance" in all these things, as also I repeatedly forewarned you and testified to you.
NET Bible
In this matter no one should violate the rights of his brother or take advantage of him, because the Lord is the avenger in all these cases, as we also told you earlier and warned you solemnly.
New Heart English Bible
that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.
Noyes New Testament
that no one should go beyond and overreach his brother in the matter; because the Lord is the avenger in respect to all these things, as we also told you before and solemnly testified.
Sawyer New Testament
that he should not go beyond and defraud his brother in the matter, because the Lord is a punisher of all these, as we also told you before and fully testified.
The Emphasized Bible
Not over-reaching and defrauding, in the matter, his brother; because, an avenger, is the Lord, concerning all these things, - even as we before told you, and solemnly called you to witness.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
that no man transgress against, or act dishonestly to his brother in this matter because the Lord is the avenger of all such things, as we have told you before, and testified.
Twentieth Century New Testament
None of you over-reaching or taking advantage of his Brother in such matters. 'The Lord takes vengeance' upon all who do such things, as we have already warned you and solemnly declared.
Webster
That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
Weymouth New Testament
and that in this matter there be no encroaching on the rights of a brother Christian and no overreaching him. For the Lord is an avenger in all such cases, as we have already taught you and solemnly warned you.
Williams New Testament
that no one should do wrong and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord takes vengeance for all such things, as we told you before and solemnly warned you.
World English Bible
that no one should take advantage of and wrong a brother or sister in this matter; because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as also we forewarned you and testified.
Worrell New Testament
that he go not beyond and gain an advantage over his brother in the matter; because the Lord is an avenger of all these things, as we also told you before, and solemnly testified.
Worsley New Testament
That no one over-reach, or wrong his brother in any thing: because the Lord is an avenger of all such crimes, as we also told you before, and testified to you.
Youngs Literal Translation
that no one go beyond and defraud in the matter his brother, because an avenger is the Lord of all these, as also we spake before to you and testified,
Themes
Defrauding » Not defrauding others
Despisement » Who despises the lord
Despisement » Those that despise the commandments of the lord
teaching » Who the lord teaches
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Word Count of 36 Translations in 1 Thessalonians 4:6
Images 1 Thessalonians 4:6
Prayers for 1 Thessalonians 4:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
Appeal For Continuing Sanctification
5 (not in the passion of lust, even as the nations who do not know God), 6 not to go beyond and defraud his brother in this matter (because the Lord is the avenger concerning all these, as we also have forewarned you and testified). 7 For God has not called us to uncleanness, but in sanctification.
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Cross References
Romans 12:19
not avenging yourselves, beloved, but giving place to wrath; for it is written, "Vengeance is Mine, I will repay, says the Lord."
Hebrews 13:4
Marriage is honorable in all, and the bed undefiled, but fornicators and adulterers God will judge.
Exodus 20:15
You shall not steal.
Exodus 20:17
You shall not covet your neighbor's house. You shall not covet your neighbor's wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is your neighbor's.
Leviticus 19:11
You shall not steal, nor lie, nor be deceitful to one another.
Leviticus 19:13
You shall not defraud your neighbor nor rob him. The wages of him who is hired shall not stay with you until the morning.
Leviticus 25:14
And if you sell anything to your neighbor, or buy from your neighbor's hand, you shall not oppress one another.
Leviticus 25:17
And you shall not oppress one another. But you shall fear your God. For I am Jehovah your God.
Deuteronomy 24:7
If a man is found stealing a person of his brothers, the sons of Israel, and makes a slave of him, or sells him, then that thief shall die. And you shall put evil away from among you.
Deuteronomy 25:13-16
You shall not have in your bag two kinds of weights, a great stone and a small.
Deuteronomy 32:35
Vengeance and retribution belong to Me. Their foot shall slide in time, for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come on them make haste.
1 Samuel 12:3-4
Behold, here I am. Witness against me before Jehovah and before His anointed. Whose ox have I taken? Or whose ass have I taken? Or whom have I defrauded? Whom have I oppressed? Or from whose hand have I received a bribe, to blind my eyes with it? And I will restore it to you.
Job 31:13-14
If I despised the cause of my man servant or of my slave-girl, when they argued with me;
Psalm 94:1
O God of vengeance, Jehovah, the God of vengeance, shine forth!
Psalm 140:12
I know that Jehovah will maintain the cause of the afflicted and the right of the poor.
Proverbs 11:1
False balances are hateful to Jehovah; but a just weight is His delight.
Proverbs 16:11
A just weight and balance are Jehovah's; all the weights of the bag are His work.
Proverbs 20:14
It is bad! Bad, says the buyer; but when it is left to him, then he boasts.
Proverbs 20:23
Different kinds of weights are hateful to Jehovah, and a false balance is not good.
Proverbs 22:22-23
Do not rob the poor, because he is poor; nor press down the afflicted in the gate;
Proverbs 28:24
Whoever robs his father or his mother and says, It is no sin; he shall be a companion to a destroyer.
Ecclesiastes 5:8
If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, do not marvel at the matter. For He who is higher than the highest watches; and there are some higher than they.
Isaiah 1:23-24
your rulers are rebellious, and companions of thieves; everyone loves a bribe, and is pursuing rewards; they do not judge the orphan, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.
Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah His pleasant plant; and He looked for justice, but behold bloody iniquity; for righteousness, but behold a cry!
Isaiah 59:4-7
None calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth; they trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and bring out iniquity.
Jeremiah 7:6
if you do not oppress the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your hurt;
Jeremiah 9:4
Everyone beware of his neighbor, and do not trust any brother! For every brother will supplant his neighbor, and will walk with slanders.
Ezekiel 22:13
And behold, I have struck My palm against your unjust gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been in your midst.
Ezekiel 45:9-14
So says the Lord Jehovah: Enough for you, O rulers of Israel. Remove violence and spoil, and do judgment and justice. Take away your demands on My people, says the Lord Jehovah.
Amos 8:5-6
saying, When will the new moon be gone so that we may sell grain? And the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small and the shekel great, and perverting the balances by deceit;
Micah 2:2
And they covet and seize fields; and houses, and take them away. And they oppress a man and his household, even a man and his inheritance.
Zephaniah 3:1
Woe to her rebelling and becoming defiled, to the oppressing city!
Zephaniah 3:5
The just Jehovah is in her midst; He will not act perversely. Every morning He gives His justice to the light; He fails not; but the perverse knows no shame.
Malachi 3:5
And I will come near you to judgment. And I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those who extort from the hired laborer's wages, and turning away the widow, and the orphan, the alien, and not fearing Me, says Jehovah of Hosts.
Mark 10:19
You know the commandments: Do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear false witness, do not defraud, honor your father and your mother.
Luke 12:5
But I will warn you of whom you shall fear: Fear Him who, after He has killed, has authority to cast into hell. Yea, I say to you, fear Him.
Romans 1:18
For the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness,
Romans 13:4
For it is a servant of God to you for good. For if you practice evil, be afraid, for it does not bear the sword in vain; for it is a servant of God, a revenger for wrath on him who does evil.
1 Corinthians 6:7-9
Indeed then there is already on the whole a failure among you, that you have lawsuits with yourselves. Why not instead be wronged? Why not instead be defrauded?
Galatians 5:21
envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revelings, and things like these; of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that they who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Ephesians 4:17
This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should not walk from now on as other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,
Ephesians 4:28
Let him who stole steal no more, but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, so that he may have something to give to him who needs.
Ephesians 5:6
Let no man deceive you with vain words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience.
2 Thessalonians 1:8
in flaming fire taking vengeance on those who do not know God and who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ,
James 2:6
But you dishonored the poor one. Do not rich men oppress you and draw you before the judgment seats?
James 5:4
Behold, the hire of the laborers reaping your fields cry out, being kept back by you. And the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts.