Ephesians 4:19

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

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  • 1 Tim 4:2 : 2 influenced by the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared.
  • Rom 1:24-26 : 24 Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and worshiped and served the creation rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen. 26 For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,
  • Col 3:5 : 5 So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.
  • Rev 18:3 : 3 For all the nations have fallen from the wine of her immoral passion, and the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have gotten rich from the power of her sensual behavior.”
  • Eph 4:17 : 17 Live in Holiness So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
  • Job 15:16 : 16 how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!
  • Isa 56:11 : 11 The dogs have big appetites; they are never full. They are shepherds who have no understanding; they all go their own way, each one looking for monetary gain.
  • 1 Pet 4:3 : 3 For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to do what the non-Christians desire. You lived then in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts, and wanton idolatries.
  • 2 Pet 2:22 : 22 They are illustrations of this true proverb:“A dog returns to its own vomit,” and“A sow, after washing herself, wallows in the mire.”
  • Jude 1:11 : 11 Woe to them! For they have traveled down Cain’s path, and because of greed have abandoned themselves to Balaam’s error; hence, they will certainly perish in Korah’s rebellion.
  • Rev 17:1-6 : 1 The Great Prostitute and the Beast Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and spoke to me.“Come,” he said,“I will show you the condemnation and punishment of the great prostitute who sits on many waters, 2 with whom the kings of the earth committed sexual immorality and the earth’s inhabitants got drunk with the wine of her immorality.” 3 So he carried me away in the Spirit to a wilderness, and there I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was full of blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. 4 Now the woman was dressed in purple and scarlet clothing, and adorned with gold, precious stones, and pearls. She held in her hand a golden cup filled with detestable things and unclean things from her sexual immorality. 5 On her forehead was written a name, a mystery:“Babylon the Great, the Mother of prostitutes and of the detestable things of the earth.” 6 I saw that the woman was drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of those who testified to Jesus. I was greatly astounded when I saw her.
  • 2 Pet 2:12-14 : 12 But these men, like irrational animals– creatures of instinct, born to be caught and destroyed– do not understand whom they are insulting, and consequently in their destruction they will be destroyed, 13 suffering harm as the wages for their harmful ways. By considering it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight, they are stains and blemishes, indulging in their deceitful pleasures when they feast together with you. 14 Their eyes, full of adultery, never stop sinning; they entice unstable people. They have trained their hearts for greed, these cursed children!

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    17Live in Holiness So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

    18They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

  • Rom 1:24
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    24Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves.

  • 1 Pet 4:2-4
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    2in that he spends the rest of his time on earth concerned about the will of God and not human desires.

    3For the time that has passed was sufficient for you to do what the non-Christians desire. You lived then in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, carousing, drinking bouts, and wanton idolatries.

    4So they are astonished when you do not rush with them into the same flood of wickedness, and they vilify you.

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    5not in lustful passion like the Gentiles who do not know God.

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    19Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,

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    5So put to death whatever in your nature belongs to the earth: sexual immorality, impurity, shameful passion, evil desire, and greed which is idolatry.

    6Because of these things the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

    7You also lived your lives in this way at one time, when you used to live among them.

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    13suffering harm as the wages for their harmful ways. By considering it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight, they are stains and blemishes, indulging in their deceitful pleasures when they feast together with you.

    14Their eyes, full of adultery, never stop sinning; they entice unstable people. They have trained their hearts for greed, these cursed children!

  • Eph 4:20
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    20But you did not learn about Christ like this,

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    3But among you there must not be either sexual immorality, impurity of any kind, or greed, as these are not fitting for the saints.

    4Neither should there be vulgar speech, foolish talk, or coarse jesting– all of which are out of character– but rather thanksgiving.

    5For you can be confident of this one thing: that no person who is immoral, impure, or greedy(such a person is an idolater) has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

    6Live in the Light Let nobody deceive you with empty words, for because of these things God’s wrath comes on the sons of disobedience.

    7Therefore do not be sharers with them,

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    28And just as they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what should not be done.

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    18For by speaking high-sounding but empty words they are able to entice, with fleshly desires and with debauchery, people who have just escaped from those who reside in error.

    19Although these false teachers promise such people freedom, they themselves are enslaved to immorality. For whatever a person succumbs to, to that he is enslaved.

    20For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first.

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    1New Life Individually And although you were dead in your offenses and sins,

    2in which you formerly lived according to this world’s present path, according to the ruler of the domain of the air, the ruler of the spirit that is now energizing the sons of disobedience,

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    4For certain men have secretly slipped in among you– men who long ago were marked out for the condemnation I am about to describe– ungodly men who have turned the grace of our God into a license for evil and who deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.

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    19These people are divisive, worldly, devoid of the Spirit.

  • Eph 4:22
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    22You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires,

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    24Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

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    4treacherous, reckless, conceited, loving pleasure rather than loving God.

  • Rom 1:26
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    26For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged the natural sexual relations for unnatural ones,

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    31senseless, covenant-breakers, heartless, ruthless.

    32Although they fully know God’s righteous decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but also approve of those who practice them.

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    3For we too were once foolish, disobedient, misled, enslaved to various passions and desires, spending our lives in evil and envy, hateful and hating one another.

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    3And in their greed they will exploit you with deceptive words. Their condemnation pronounced long ago is not sitting idly by; their destruction is not asleep.

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    6For some of these insinuate themselves into households and captivate weak women who are overwhelmed with sins and led along by various passions.

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    19(I am speaking in human terms because of the weakness of your flesh.) For just as you once presented your members as slaves to impurity and lawlessness leading to more lawlessness, so now present your members as slaves to righteousness leading to sanctification.

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    14Like obedient children, do not comply with the evil urges you used to follow in your ignorance,

  • 2 Pet 2:10
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    10especially those who indulge their fleshly desires and who despise authority. Brazen and insolent, they are not afraid to insult the glorious ones,

  • Rom 13:14
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    14Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make no provision for the flesh to arouse its desires.

  • Titus 1:15
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    15All is pure to those who are pure. But to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their minds and consciences are corrupted.

  • Rom 1:21
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    21For although they knew God, they did not glorify him as God or give him thanks, but they became futile in their thoughts and their senseless hearts were darkened.

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    9But concerning the one who lacks such things– he is blind. That is to say, he is nearsighted, since he has forgotten about the cleansing of his past sins.

  • Phil 3:19
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    19Their end is destruction, their god is the belly, they exult in their shame, and they think about earthly things.

  • Jude 1:7
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    7So also Sodom and Gomorrah and the neighboring towns, since they indulged in sexual immorality and pursued unnatural desire in a way similar to these angels, are now displayed as an example by suffering the punishment of eternal fire.

  • 1 Tim 4:2
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    2influenced by the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared.

  • Titus 2:12
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    12It trains us to reject godless ways and worldly desires and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age,

  • Gal 5:21
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    21envying, murder, drunkenness, carousing, and similar things. I am warning you, as I had warned you before: Those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God!