Ephesians 4:19

World English Bible (2000)

who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

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  • 1 Tim 4:2 : 2 through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;
  • Rom 1:24-26 : 24 Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves, 25 who exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. 26 For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.
  • Col 3:5 : 5 Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
  • Rev 18:3 : 3 For all the nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her sexual immorality, the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth grew rich from the abundance of her luxury."
  • Eph 4:17 : 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,
  • Job 15:16 : 16 how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, a man who drinks iniquity like water!
  • Isa 56:11 : 11 Yes, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds who can't understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.
  • 1 Pet 4:3 : 3 For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.
  • 2 Pet 2:22 : 22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, "The dog turns to his own vomit again," and "the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire."
  • Jude 1:11 : 11 Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah's rebellion.
  • Rev 17:1-6 : 1 One of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke with me, saying, "Come here. I will show you the judgment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters, 2 with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality, and those who dwell in the earth were made drunken with the wine of her sexual immorality." 3 He carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet-colored animal, full of blasphemous names, having seven heads and ten horns. 4 The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of the sexual immorality of the earth. 5 And on her forehead a name was written, "MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF THE PROSTITUTES AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH." 6 I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus. When I saw her, I wondered with great amazement.
  • 2 Pet 2:12-14 : 12 But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed, 13 receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you; 14 having eyes full of adultery, and who can't cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

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  • Eph 4:17-18
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    17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

    18being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;

  • Rom 1:24
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    24Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,

  • 1 Pet 4:2-4
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    2that you no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh for the lusts of men, but for the will of God.

    3For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

    4They think it is strange that you don't run with them into the same excess of riot, blaspheming:

  • 1 Thess 4:5
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    5not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don't know God;

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    19Now the works of the flesh are obvious, which are: adultery, sexual immorality, uncleanness, lustfulness,

  • Col 3:5-7
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    5Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

    6for which things' sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

    7You also once walked in those, when you lived in them;

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    13receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and blemishes, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you;

    14having eyes full of adultery, and who can't cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

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    3But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

    4nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate; but rather giving of thanks.

    5Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

    6Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

    7Therefore don't be partakers with them.

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    28Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

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    18For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error;

    19promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him.

    20For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first.

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    1You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins,

    2in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience;

    3among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

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    4For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

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    19These are they who cause divisions, and are sensual, not having the Spirit.

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    22that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

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    24Those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and lusts.

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    4traitors, headstrong, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

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    26For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

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    31without understanding, covenant breakers, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful;

    32who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

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    3For we were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

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    3In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn't linger, and their destruction will not slumber.

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    6For some of these are people who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

  • Rom 6:19
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    19I speak in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh, for as you presented your members as servants to uncleanness and to wickedness upon wickedness, even so now present your members as servants to righteousness for sanctification.

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    14as children of obedience, not conforming yourselves according to your former lusts as in your ignorance,

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    10but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement, and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries;

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    14But put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh, for its lusts.

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    15To the pure, all things are pure; but to those who are defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

  • Rom 1:21
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    21Because, knowing God, they didn't glorify him as God, neither gave thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

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    9For he who lacks these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having forgotten the cleansing from his old sins.

  • Phil 3:19
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    19whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who think about earthly things.

  • Jude 1:7
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    7Even as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them, having, in the same way as these, given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

  • 1 Tim 4:2
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    2through the hypocrisy of men who speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron;

  • Titus 2:12
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    12instructing us to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we would live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world;

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    21envyings, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.