1 Thessalonians 5:19

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“Don’t quench the Spirit.”

— WEB

“Quench not the Spirit.”

— KJV

“Quench not the Spirit;”

— ASV

Bible Verses About the Holy Spirit

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Ephesians 4:30 "Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption."
Acts 7:51 "“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do."
2 Timothy 1:6 "For this cause, I remind you that you should stir up the gift of God which is in you through the laying on of my hands."
1 Timothy 4:14 "Don’t neglect the gift that is in you, which was given to you by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the elders."
Isaiah 63:10 "But they rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit. Therefore he turned and became their enemy, and he himself fought against them."
Psalms 51:11 "Don’t throw me from your presence, and don’t take your holy Spirit from me."
Nehemiah 9:30 "Yet many years you put up with them, and testified against them by your Spirit through your prophets. Yet would they not give ear. Theref…"
Genesis 6:3 "Yahweh said, “My Spirit will not strive with man forever, because he also is flesh; so his days will be one hundred twenty years.”"

Commentary

Quench not--the Spirit being a holy fire: "where the Spirit is, He burns" [BENGEL] (Mat 3:11; Act 2:3; Act 7:51). Do not throw cold water on those who, under extraordinary inspiration of the Spirit, stand up to speak with tongues, or reveal mysteries, or pray in the congregation. The enthusiastic exhibitions of some (perhaps as to the nearness of Christ's coming, exaggerating Paul's statement, Th2 2:2, By spirit), led others (probably the presiding ministers, who had not always been treated with due respect by enthusiastic novices, Th1 5:12), from dread of enthusiasm, to discourage the free utterances of those really inspired, in the Church assembly. On the other hand, the caution (Th1 5:21) was needed, not to receive "all" pretended revelations as divine, without "proving" them.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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