1st Thessalonians Chapter 4 verse 8 Holy Bible

ASV 1stThessalonians 4:8

Therefore he that rejecteth, rejecteth not man, but God, who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you.
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BBE 1stThessalonians 4:8

Whoever, then, goes against this word, goes against not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you.
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DARBY 1stThessalonians 4:8

He therefore that [in this] disregards [his brother], disregards, not man, but God, who has given also his Holy Spirit to you.
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KJV 1stThessalonians 4:8

He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.
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WBT 1stThessalonians 4:8


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WEB 1stThessalonians 4:8

Therefore he who rejects doesn't reject man, but God, who has also given his Holy Spirit to you.
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YLT 1stThessalonians 4:8

he, therefore, who is despising -- doth not despise man, but God, who also did give His Holy Spirit to us.
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 8. - He therefore that despiseth; or, as it is in the margin, rejecteth (R.V.). What is rejected is either the above commands to moral purity, or the Christian calling to holiness, or, better still, Paul himself, as the organ of God. Despiseth; or, rejecteth. Not man; that is, not me, as if the commands were given from myself - were of mere human origin. But God; the Giver of these commands. So also Peter said unto Ananias, "Thou hast not lied unto man, but unto God" (Acts 5:4); and our Lord says, "He that rejecteth you rejecteth me" (Luke 10:16). Who hath also given unto us his Holy Spirit. If this is the correct reading, then the apostle here again asserts his own inspiration, and that in the strongest and plainest terms. The best manuscripts, however, read, "who giveth his Holy Spirit unto you" (R.V.) - a strong enforcement of holiness, inasmuch as the Holy Spirit was given them for the express purpose of producing holiness within them.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(8) "So you see that to act contumeliously in the matter is to act contumeliously not only towards your neighbour, but towards God Himself, and that, too, after He has given you a gift which should have preserved you from these corruptions."He . . . that despiseth.--The verb means to treat as insignificant either persons or things. Here the object is not supplied in the first instance, in order to heighten the effect of the second clause. If we were to supply it, it would include all the rights which the unclean liver spurns, "the commandments which we (mere men as you thought us) gave you," the "brother" whose domestic happiness has been invaded, the unfortunate victim herself, and, finally, the "honour" due to the sinner's own body. Since it was God who ordered the relations in which we all stand to one another, contempt for these relations is contempt for Him.Who hath also given.--Mistranslated for "who also gave." St. Paul is looking back to the day when he confirmed them; for the right reading is not "unto us," but "unto you," or more correctly "into you"--i.e., "to enter into you, and dwell there" (John 14:17, and many other places). The word "holy" in the original is very emphatically put:" Who also gave His Spirit--His Holy Spirit--to enter you," thus bringing out the startling contrast between such foul lives and the holiness which befitted and was possible (Romans 6:14; Romans 8:3-4) for men in whom the Holy Ghost, communicated by the laying on of hands, vouchsafed to dwell.