Skip to main content

1 Thessalonians 5:22

Abstain from all appearance of evil.

KJV

ἀπὸ παντὸς εἴδους πονηροῦ ἀπέχεσθε.

Greek NT

Ab omni specie mala abstinete vos.

Vulgate

abstain from every form of evil.

ASV

From all appearance of evil refrain yourselves.

Douay-Rheims

Open in reader with connections →

In the original Greek

5 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

εἶδος
eidos
noun · 5×
πονηρός
poneros
adjective · 77×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
ἀπέχω
apecho
verb · 18×
ἀπό
apo
preposition · 640×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Stand fast, therefore, in these things, and follow the example of the Lord, being firm and unchangeable in the faith, loving the brotherhood, and being attached to one another, joined together in the truth, exhibiting the meekness of the Lord in your intercourse with one another, and despising no one.

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 8:13 — Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.
  • 1Cor 10:31 — Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.
  • 1Thess 4:12 — That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
  • 1Thess 4:12 — That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.
  • 1Tim 3:7 — Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.
  • 2Cor 6:3 — Giving no offence in any thing, that the ministry be not blamed:
  • 2Cor 8:20 — Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us:
  • 2Cor 8:20 — Avoiding this, that no man should blame us in this abundance which is administered by us:
  • 2Cor 8:21 — Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.
  • Exod 23:7 — Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
  • Exod 23:7 — Keep thee far from a false matter; and the innocent and righteous slay thou not: for I will not justify the wicked.
  • Gen 27:12 — My father peradventure will feel me, and I shall seem to him as a deceiver; and I shall bring a curse upon me, and not a blessing.
  • Gen 39:10 — And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.
  • Isa 33:15 — He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shuttet
  • Jude 1:23 — And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.
  • Matt 10:16 — Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
  • Matt 17:26 — Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free.
  • Phil 4:8 — Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report;
  • Prov 4:15 — Avoid it, pass not by it, turn from it, and pass away.
  • Prov 8:13 — The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
  • Prov 14:16 — A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.
  • Rom 12:17 — Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
  • Rom 12:17 — Recompense to no man evil for evil. Provide things honest in the sight of all men.
  • Rom 14:16 — Let not then your good be evil spoken of: