Ephesians 4:17

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τοῦτο οὖν λέγω, καὶ μαρτύρομαι ἐν Κυρίῳ, μηκέτι ὑμᾶς περιπατεῖν καθὼς καὶ τὰ λοιπὰ Ἔθνη περιπατεῖ, ἐν ματαιότητι τοῦ νοὸς αὐτῶν,

Transliteration

This oun I legō, and martyromai in Kyriō, no longer you to peripatein kathōs also the rest Ethnē peripatei, in mataiotēti of the noos of them,

Grammar Details

• *oun*: inferential particle - therefore/then
• *legō*: present active indicative, 1st singular - I say/tell
• *martyromai*: present middle indicative, 1st singular - I testify/affirm
• *Kyriō*: dative masculine singular - in Lord
• *peripatein*: present active infinitive - to walk/conduct oneself
• *kathōs*: adverb - just as/even as
• *Ethnē*: nominative neuter plural - Gentiles/nations
• *peripatei*: present active indicative, 3rd singular - walks/conducts itself
• *mataiotēti*: dative feminine singular - in vanity/futility
• *noos*: genitive masculine singular - of mind/understanding

Word Meanings

• *legō*: say/tell/speak
• *martyromai*: testify/affirm solemnly
• *Kyriō*: Lord/master
• *peripatein*: walk/conduct oneself/live
• *Ethnē*: Gentiles/nations/pagans
• *mataiotēti*: vanity/futility/emptiness
• *noos*: mind/understanding/intellect

Referenced Verses

• Rom 1:21 : 21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.
• Eph 2:1-3 : 1 And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins; 2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
• Col 2:4 : 4 And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.
• 1 Pet 4:3-4 : 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: 4 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:
• 1 Pet 1:18 : 18 Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
• Eph 1:22 : 22 And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,
• 2 Pet 2:18 : 18 For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.
• Col 2:18 : 18 Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,
• Eph 4:22 : 22 That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
• 1 Thess 4:1-2 : 1 Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more. 2 For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.
• 1 Thess 4:6 : 6 That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter: because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as we also have forewarned you and testified.
• 1 Tim 5:21 : 21 I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.
• 1 Tim 6:13 : 13 I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things, and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession;
• 2 Tim 4:1 : 1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
• 1 Cor 1:12 : 12 Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.
• 1 Cor 15:50 : 50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
• 2 Cor 9:6 : 6 But this I say, He which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully.
• Gal 3:17 : 17 And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
• Gal 5:3 : 3 For I testify ain to every man that is circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law.
• Neh 9:29-30 : 29 And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearked not unto thy commandments, but sind against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and harded their ck, and would not hear. 30 Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.
• Neh 13:15 : 15 In those days saw I in Judah some treading wi presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses; as also wi, grapes, and figs, and all manr of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.
• Ps 94:8-9 : 8 Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise? 9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see? 10 He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know? 11 The LORD knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.
• Jer 42:19 : 19 The LORD hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah; Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day.
• Acts 2:40 : 40 And with many other words did he testify and exhort, saying, Save yourselves from this untoward generation.
• Acts 14:15 : 15 And saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and preh unto you that ye should turn from these vanities unto the living God, which made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and all things that are therein:
• Acts 18:5 : 5 And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Medonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.
• Acts 20:21 : 21 Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Gal 5:19-21 : 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
• 1 Cor 6:9-9 : 9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
• Rom 1:23-32 : 23 And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things. 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness thugh the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their err which was meet. 28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a repbate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, 30 Backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, pud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 Without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful: 32 Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
• Col 3:5-8 : 5 Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: 7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them. 8 But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.