15 (A)Outside are the (B)dogs, the sorcerers, the sexually immoral persons, the murderers, the idolaters, and everyone who loves and practices lying.

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(A)Therefore, [a]treat (B)the parts of your earthly body as dead to (C)sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which [b]amounts to idolatry.

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  1. Colossians 3:5 Lit put to death the parts of your body which are upon the earth
  2. Colossians 3:5 Lit is

For this you know with certainty, that (A)no sexually immoral or [a]impure or greedy person, which [b]amounts to an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom (B)of Christ and God.

(C)See that no one deceives you with empty words, for because of these things (D)the wrath of God comes upon (E)the [c]sons of disobedience.

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  1. Ephesians 5:5 I.e., morally impure
  2. Ephesians 5:5 Lit is
  3. Ephesians 5:6 I.e., people opposed to God

28 And just as they did not see fit [a]to acknowledge God, (A)God gave them up to a depraved mind, to do those things that are not proper,

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  1. Romans 1:28 Lit to have God in knowledge

19 and they, having (A)become callous, (B)have given themselves up to (C)indecent behavior [a]for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

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  1. Ephesians 4:19 Or greedy for the practice of every kind of impurity

21 I am afraid that when I come again my God may humiliate me before you, and I may mourn over many of those who have (A)sinned in the past and not repented of the (B)impurity, sexual immorality, and indecent behavior which they have practiced.

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