not in (A)the passion of lust (B)like the Gentiles (C)who do not know God;

Read full chapter

not in passionate lust(A) like the pagans,(B) who do not know God;(C)

Read full chapter

Paul's Concern for the Galatians

Formerly, when you (A)did not know God, you (B)were enslaved to those that by nature (C)are not gods.

Read full chapter

Paul’s Concern for the Galatians

Formerly, when you did not know God,(A) you were slaves(B) to those who by nature are not gods.(C)

Read full chapter

30 (A)The times of ignorance (B)God overlooked, but (C)now he (D)commands all people everywhere to repent, 31 because he has fixed (E)a day on which (F)he will judge the world (G)in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and (H)of this he has given assurance to all (I)by raising him from the dead.”

Read full chapter

30 In the past God overlooked(A) such ignorance,(B) but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.(C) 31 For he has set a day when he will judge(D) the world with justice(E) by the man he has appointed.(F) He has given proof of this to everyone by raising him from the dead.”(G)

Read full chapter

The New Life

17 Now this I say and (A)testify in the Lord, (B)that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, (C)in the futility of their minds. 18 They (D)are darkened in their understanding, (E)alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to (F)their hardness of heart. 19 They (G)have become callous and (H)have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.

Read full chapter

Instructions for Christian Living

17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer(A) live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.(B) 18 They are darkened in their understanding(C) and separated from the life of God(D) because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.(E) 19 Having lost all sensitivity,(F) they have given themselves over(G) to sensuality(H) so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed.

Read full chapter

(A)in flaming fire, inflicting vengeance on those (B)who do not know God and on those who (C)do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.

Read full chapter

He will punish(A) those who do not know God(B) and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.(C)

Read full chapter

(A)Put to death therefore (B)what is earthly in you:[a] (C)sexual immorality, impurity, (D)passion, evil desire, and covetousness, (E)which is idolatry.

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. Colossians 3:5 Greek therefore your members that are on the earth

Put to death,(A) therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature:(B) sexual immorality,(C) impurity, lust, evil desires and greed,(D) which is idolatry.(E)

Read full chapter

26 For this reason (A)God gave them up to (B)dishonorable passions. For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature;

Read full chapter

26 Because of this, God gave them over(A) to shameful lusts.(B) Even their women exchanged natural sexual relations for unnatural ones.(C)

Read full chapter

For the time that is past (A)suffices (B)for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.

Read full chapter

For you have spent enough time in the past(A) doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.(B)

Read full chapter

12 remember (A)that you were at that time separated from Christ, (B)alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to (C)the covenants of promise, (D)having no hope and without God in the world.

Read full chapter

12 remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners(A) to the covenants of the promise,(B) without hope(C) and without God in the world.

Read full chapter

28 And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, (A)God gave them up to (B)a debased mind to do (C)what ought not to be done.

Read full chapter

28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over(A) to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done.

Read full chapter

24 Therefore (A)God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to (B)the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,

Read full chapter

24 Therefore God gave them over(A) in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another.(B)

Read full chapter

34 (A)Wake up from your drunken stupor, as is right, and do not go on sinning. For (B)some have no knowledge of God. (C)I say this to your shame.

Read full chapter

34 Come back to your senses as you ought, and stop sinning; for there are some who are ignorant of God(A)—I say this to your shame.(B)

Read full chapter

23 For as I passed along and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: (A)‘To the unknown god.’ (B)What therefore you worship (C)as unknown, this I proclaim to you.

Read full chapter

23 For 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 ignorant of the very thing you worship(A)—and this is what I am going to proclaim to you.

Read full chapter