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Cultivate the Spirit's Fire
Commentators universally agree that this verse uses the metaphor of a fire. The Holy Spirit's work in a believer's heart is like a flame that provides spiritual light, warmth, and passion. This fire can be dampened or "quenched" through personal neglect of prayer, indulging in sin, worldliness, or allowing a spirit of gloom to take over. The command is a call to actively cultivate and fuel the Spirit's work in your life.
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1 Thessalonians
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Thessalonians 5:19
18th Century
Theologian
Quench not the Spirit. This language is taken from the way of putting out a fire; and the sense is, we are not to extinguish the influence…
AT Robertson
On 1 Thessalonians 5:19
Quench not the spirit (το πνευμα μη σβεννυτε). Μη with the present imperative means to stop doing it or not to have the habit of d…
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Thessalonians 5:19
19th Century
Bishop
Quench not the Spirit.—The mention of prayer and thanksgiving (eucharistia), by which public as well as private …
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Charles Spurgeon
On 1 Thessalonians 5:19
19th Century
Preacher
Quench not the spirit.
Do not hinder his movements in yourself; do not try to hinder them in others. If anyone has a gift that they…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Thessalonians 5:19
Paul now shifts from the personal life to communal worship (vv.19–22). “Do not put out the Spirit’s fire” alludes to the Holy Spirit as a burning p…
John Calvin
On 1 Thessalonians 5:19
16th Century
Theologian
Quench not the Spirit. This metaphor is derived from the power and nature of the Spirit; for as it is the Spirit's proper role to illumina…
John Gill
On 1 Thessalonians 5:19
17th Century
Pastor
Quench not the spirit .
By which is meant, not the person of the Spirit, but either the graces of the spirit, whic…
Matthew Henry
On 1 Thessalonians 5:16–22
17th Century
Minister
We are to rejoice in creature-comforts as if we did not rejoice, and we must not expect to live many years and rejoice in them all; but if we rejoi…