KJV King James Version
Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
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Ephesians 4:19
Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
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.
WEB World English Bible
who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
ASV American Standard Version
who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
who, having ceased to feel, themselves did give up to the lasciviousness, for the working of all uncleanness in greediness;
Surrounding context — Ephesians 4
16 From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
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:
19 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:
22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
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οἵτινεςG3748 · hostis, hētiswho/whichἀπηλγηκότεςG524 · apalgeōto become callousἑαυτοὺςG1438 · heautouthemselfπαρέδωκανG3860 · paradidōmito deliverτῇG3588 · hothe/this/whoἀσελγείᾳG766 · aselgeiadebaucheryεἰςG1519 · eistowardἐργασίανG2039 · ergasiaworkἀκαθαρσίαςG167 · akatharsiaimpurityπάσηςG3956 · pasallἐνG1722 · enin/on/amongπλεονεξίᾳ.¶G4124 · pleonexiagreediness
Cross-references
Colossians 3:5Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:Romans 1:24-26Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:1 Timothy 4:2Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;Jude 1:11Woe 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.2 Peter 2:12-14But 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;Revelation 18:3For 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.1 Peter 4:3For 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:2 Peter 2:22But 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.Isaiah 56:11Yea, [they are] greedy dogs [which] can never have enough, and they [are] shepherds [that] cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.Ephesians 4:17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,Job 15:16How much more abominable and filthy [is] man, which drinketh iniquity like water?Revelation 17:1-6And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
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