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  • 1 Thessalonians 5:19
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
    • 19 Do not put out the fire of the spirit.+

  • 1 Thessalonians 5:19
    The Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures
    • 19 τὸ The πνεῦμα spirit μὴ not σβέννυτε, be YOU extinguishing,

  • 1 Thessalonians 5:19
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures—With References
    • 19 Do not put out the fire of the spirit.+

  • 1 Thessalonians 5:19
    The Bible in Living English
    • 19 Do not put out the fire of the Spirit;

  • 1 Thessalonians 5:19
    American Standard Version
    • 19 Quench not the Spirit;

  • 1 Thessalonians 5:19
    The Emphasized Bible
    • 19 The Spirit do not quench,

  • 1 Thessalonians 5:19
    King James Version
    • 19 Quench not the Spirit.

  • 1 Thessalonians
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1986-2025
    • 5:19 w23.06 12-13; w00 7/1 10; w89 12/1 21

  • 1 Thessalonians
    Watch Tower Publications Index 1930-1985
    • 5:19 w61 85

  • 1 Thessalonians
    Research Guide for Jehovah’s Witnesses—2019 Edition
    • 5:19

      The Watchtower (Study),

      6/2023, pp. 12-13

      The Watchtower,

      7/1/2000, p. 10

      12/1/1989, p. 21

  • 1 Thessalonians Study Notes—Chapter 5
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures (Study Edition)
    • 5:19

      Do not put out the fire of the spirit: The expression “put out the fire” renders a single Greek verb that literally means “to extinguish; to quench.” At Mr 9:48 and Heb 11:34, it is used in connection with symbolic and literal fire. Here Paul uses it in a figurative sense about God’s “spirit,” or active force. This spirit can be like a fire within Christians, causing them to “be aglow” with that force, invigorating them to speak and act in harmony with Jehovah’s will. (See Ro 12:11 and study note; see study note on Ac 18:25.) A Christian whose thinking and actions are in harmony with the flesh would be disregarding God’s holy spirit, in effect, extinguishing it within his own heart.​—Ga 5:17; 1Th 4:8.

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