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Ephesians 4:19

PuritySinShame

17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

20 But ye have not so learned Christ;

21 If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth 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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  • Colossians 3:5

    Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

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  • Romans 1:24–26

    Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

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  • 1 Timothy 4:2

    Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

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  • Jude 1:11

    Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.

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  • 2 Peter 2:12–14

    But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

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  • 1 Peter 4:3

    For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

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  • Revelation 18:3

    For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.

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  • 2 Peter 2:22

    But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

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