The New Man

17 This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should (A)no longer walk as [a]the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,

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  1. Ephesians 4:17 NU omits the rest of

21 because, although they knew God, they did not glorify Him as God, nor were thankful, but (A)became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

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For we have spent enough of our past [a]lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles—when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries. In regard to these, they think it strange that you do not run with them in the same flood of dissipation, speaking evil of you.

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  1. 1 Peter 4:3 NU time

Plea for Purity

Finally then, brethren, we urge and exhort in the Lord Jesus (A)that you should abound more and more, (B)just as you received from us how you ought to walk and to please God; for you know what commandments we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

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By Grace Through Faith

And (A)you He made alive, (B)who were dead in trespasses and sins, (C)in which you once walked according to the [a]course of this world, according to (D)the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in (E)the sons of disobedience, (F)among whom also we all once conducted ourselves in (G)the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and (H)were by nature children of wrath, just as the others.

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  1. Ephesians 2:2 Gr. aion, aeon

Now this I say (A)lest anyone should deceive you with persuasive words.

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18 knowing that you were not redeemed with [a]corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers,

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  1. 1 Peter 1:18 perishable

(A)Therefore put to death (B)your members which are on the earth: (C)fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, (D)which is idolatry. (E)Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon (F)the sons of disobedience, (G)in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them.

(H)But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.

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15 and saying, “Men, (A)why are you doing these things? (B)We also are men with the same nature as you, and preach to you that you should turn from (C)these useless things (D)to the living God, (E)who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all things that are in them,

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29 And [a]testified against them,
That You might bring them back to Your law.
Yet they acted [b]proudly,
And did not heed Your commandments,
But sinned against Your judgments,
(A)‘Which if a man does, he shall live by them.’
And they shrugged their shoulders,
[c]Stiffened their necks,
And would not hear.
30 Yet for many years You had patience with them,
And [d]testified (B)against them by Your Spirit (C)in Your prophets.
Yet they would not listen;
(D)Therefore You gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

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  1. Nehemiah 9:29 admonished them
  2. Nehemiah 9:29 presumptuously
  3. Nehemiah 9:29 Became stubborn
  4. Nehemiah 9:30 admonished or warned them

Deceptions of False Teachers

18 For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who [a]have actually escaped from those who live in error.

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  1. 2 Peter 2:18 NU are barely escaping

Preach the Word

I (A)charge you [a]therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, (B)who will judge the living and the dead [b]at His appearing and His kingdom:

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  1. 2 Timothy 4:1 NU omits therefore
  2. 2 Timothy 4:1 NU and by

13 I urge you in the sight of God who gives life to all things, and before Christ Jesus (A)who witnessed the good confession before Pontius Pilate,

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21 I charge you before God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the [a]elect angels that you observe these things without (A)prejudice, doing nothing with partiality.

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  1. 1 Timothy 5:21 chosen

that no one should take advantage of and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord (A)is the avenger of all such, as we also forewarned you and testified.

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18 Let no one cheat you of your reward, taking delight in false humility and worship of angels, intruding into those things which he has [a]not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

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  1. Colossians 2:18 NU omits not

22 that you (A)put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,

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22 And (A)He put all things under His feet, and gave Him (B)to be head over all things to the church,

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19 Now (A)the works of the flesh are evident, which are: [a]adultery, [b]fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousies, outbursts of wrath, selfish ambitions, dissensions, heresies, 21 envy, [c]murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, that (B)those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

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  1. Galatians 5:19 NU omits adultery
  2. Galatians 5:19 sexual immorality
  3. Galatians 5:21 NU omits murders

And I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised (A)that he is [a]a debtor to keep the whole law.

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  1. Galatians 5:3 obligated

17 And this I say, that the law, (A)which was four hundred and thirty years later, cannot annul the covenant that was confirmed before by God [a]in Christ, (B)that it should make the promise of no effect.

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  1. Galatians 3:17 NU omits in Christ

The Cheerful Giver

(A)But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows [a]bountifully will also reap [b]bountifully.

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  1. 2 Corinthians 9:6 with blessings
  2. 2 Corinthians 9:6 with blessings

Our Final Victory

50 Now this I say, brethren, that (A)flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption.

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12 Now I say this, that (A)each of you says, “I am of Paul,” or “I am of (B)Apollos,” or “I am of (C)Cephas,” or “I am of Christ.”

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23 and changed the glory of the (A)incorruptible (B)God into an image made like [a]corruptible man—and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.

24 (C)Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, (D)to dishonor their bodies (E)among themselves, 25 who exchanged (F)the truth of God (G)for the 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 (H)vile passions. For even their [b]women exchanged the natural use for what is against nature. 27 Likewise also the [c]men, leaving the natural use of the [d]woman, burned in their lust for one another, men with men committing what is shameful, and receiving in themselves the penalty of their error which was due.

28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a debased mind, to do those things (I)which are not fitting; 29 being filled with all unrighteousness, [e]sexual immorality, wickedness, [f]covetousness, [g]maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers, 30 backbiters, haters of God, violent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, 31 [h]undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, [i]unforgiving, unmerciful; 32 who, (J)knowing the righteous judgment of God, that those who practice such things (K)are deserving of death, not only do the same but also (L)approve of those who practice them.

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  1. Romans 1:23 perishable
  2. Romans 1:26 Lit. females
  3. Romans 1:27 Lit. males
  4. Romans 1:27 Lit. female
  5. Romans 1:29 NU omits sexual immorality
  6. Romans 1:29 greed
  7. Romans 1:29 malice
  8. Romans 1:31 without understanding
  9. Romans 1:31 NU omits unforgiving

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