1 THESSALONIANS 4:8 — KING JAMES VERSION 0
“He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.”
Therefore whoever rejects this rejects not man but God, who gives his Holy Spirit to you — rejection of the sexual ethic is rejection of God himself; the stakes are absolute. 'Rejects' (atheteo) means to nullify, to treat as void. God has given the Holy Spirit as the empowering force for sanctification; refusal of purity grieves the Spirit.
Church Fathers on 1 Thessalonians 4:8
So that even if you should defile the Empress, he says, or even your own handmaid, that has a husband, the crime is the same. Why? Because He avenges not the persons that are injured, but Himself. For you are equally defiled, you have equally insulted God; for both the one and the other is adultery, as both the one and the other is marriage. And though you should not commit adultery, but fornication, though the harlot has no husband, yet nevertheless God avenges, for He…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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