Verse 5

not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God.

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Referenced Verses

  • Gal 4:8 : 8 But in the past, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those who by nature are not gods.
  • Rom 1:26 : 26 For this reason, God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature.
  • Acts 17:30-31 : 30 In the past, God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. 31 For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.
  • 2 Thess 1:8 : 8 In flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and on those who do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.
  • 1 Pet 4:3 : 3 For you have already spent enough time in the past doing what the Gentiles choose to do, living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.
  • Eph 2:12 : 12 were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
  • Eph 4:17-19 : 17 Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their minds. 18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts. 19 They have become callous and have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.
  • Col 3:5 : 5 Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which is idolatry.
  • Rom 1:24 : 24 Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, so that their bodies would be dishonored among them.
  • Matt 6:32 : 32 For the Gentiles eagerly seek all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.
  • Luke 12:30 : 30 For all the nations of the world eagerly seek these things, and your Father knows that you need them.
  • Acts 17:23 : 23 As I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. So, you are worshiping in ignorance the very one I proclaim to you.
  • Rom 1:28 : 28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, He gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
  • 1 Cor 1:21 : 21 For since in God’s wisdom the world through its wisdom did not know him, God was pleased through the foolishness of what was preached to save those who believe.
  • 1 Cor 15:34 : 34 Wake up righteously, and do not sin, for some are ignorant of God—I say this to your shame.