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Ephesians 4:19

PuritySinShame

17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

18 They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.

20 But this is not the way you came to know Christ.

21 Surely you heard of Him and were taught in Him—in keeping with the truth that is in Jesus—

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BSB
Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.
KJV
Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
WEB
They, having become callous, gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
ASV
who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
DARBY
who having cast off all feeling, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greedy unsatisfied lust.
BLB
who, having ceased to feel, gave themselves up to sensuality for the working of all impurity with covetousness.
ÅB
de som følelsesløse har overgitt seg til skamløshet, så de driver all urenhet tillikemed havesyke.
OTB
Etter å ha mistet all følsomhet, har de overgitt seg til sanselighet, for å hengi seg til all slags urenhet med grådighet.
B1930
de som følelsesløse har overgitt sig til skamløshet, så de driver all urenhet tillikemed havesyke.

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Cross references

  • Colossians 3:5

    Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.

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  • Romans 1:24–26

    Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.

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  • 1 Timothy 4:2

    influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.

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  • Jude 1:11

    Woe to them! They have traveled the path of Cain; they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam; they have perished in Korah’s rebellion.

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  • 2 Peter 2:12–14

    These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters they do not understand, and like such creatures, they too will be destroyed.

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  • 1 Peter 4:3

    For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.

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  • Revelation 18:3

    All the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from the extravagance of her luxury.”

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  • 2 Peter 2:22

    Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”

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