Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed. New Living Translation They have no sense of shame. They live for lustful pleasure and eagerly practice every kind of impurity. English Standard Version They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. Berean Standard Bible Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more. Berean Literal Bible who, having cast off all feeling, have given themselves up to sensuality for the working of all impurity, with greediness for more. King James Bible Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. New King James Version who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. New American Standard Bible and they, having become callous, have given themselves up to indecent behavior for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. NASB 1995 and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. NASB 1977 and they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality, for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. Legacy Standard Bible And they, having become callous, have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. Amplified Bible And they, [the ungodly in their spiritual apathy], having become callous and unfeeling, have given themselves over [as prey] to unbridled sensuality, eagerly craving the practice of every kind of impurity [that their desires may demand]. Christian Standard Bible They became callous and gave themselves over to promiscuity for the practice of every kind of impurity with a desire for more and more. Holman Christian Standard Bible They became callous and gave themselves over to promiscuity for the practice of every kind of impurity with a desire for more and more. American Standard Version who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Those who have cut off their hope and handed themselves over to lewdness and to the cultivation of every impurity in their lust. Contemporary English Version and they are so greedy they do all kinds of indecent things. Douay-Rheims Bible Who despairing, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, unto the working of all uncleanness, unto the working of all uncleanness, unto covetousness. English Revised Version who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. GOD'S WORD® Translation Since they no longer have any sense of shame, they have become promiscuous. They practice every kind of sexual perversion with a constant desire for more. Good News Translation They have lost all feeling of shame; they give themselves over to vice and do all sorts of indecent things without restraint. International Standard Version Since they have lost all sense of shame, they have abandoned themselves to sensuality and practice every kind of sexual perversion without restraint. Literal Standard Version who, having ceased to feel, gave themselves up to the licentiousness, for the working of all uncleanness in greediness; Majority Standard Bible Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more. New American Bible they have become callous and have handed themselves over to licentiousness for the practice of every kind of impurity to excess. NET Bible Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. New Revised Standard Version They have lost all sensitivity and have abandoned themselves to licentiousness, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. New Heart English Bible who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness. Webster's Bible Translation Who being past feeling have given themselves over to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. Weymouth New Testament Such men being past feeling have abandoned themselves to impurity, greedily indulging in every kind of profligacy. World English Bible They, having become callous, gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness. Young's Literal Translation who, having ceased to feel, themselves did give up to the lasciviousness, for the working of all uncleanness in greediness; Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context New Life in Christ …18They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts. 19Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more. 20But this is not the way you came to know Christ.… Cross References Mark 7:22 greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness. Romans 1:24 Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another. Colossians 3:5 Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry. 1 Timothy 4:2 influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron. Treasury of Scripture Who being past feeling have given themselves over to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. past. 1 Timothy 4:2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron; given. Ephesians 4:17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Romans 1:24-26 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: … 1 Peter 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: with. Job 15:16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water? Isaiah 56:11 Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter. 2 Peter 2:12-14,22 But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption; … Jump to Previous Abandoned Callous Cast Ceased Desire Evil Feel Feeling Greedily Greediness Greedy Impurity Indulging Kind Lust Overmuch Passions Past Practice Profligacy Sensuality Themselves Unclean Uncleanness Work WorkingJump to Next Abandoned Callous Cast Ceased Desire Evil Feel Feeling Greedily Greediness Greedy Impurity Indulging Kind Lust Overmuch Passions Past Practice Profligacy Sensuality Themselves Unclean Uncleanness Work WorkingEphesians 4 1. He exhorts to unity;7. and declares that God therefore gives various gifts unto men; 11. that his church might be edified, 16. and grow up in Christ. 18. He calls them from the impurity of the Gentiles; 24. to put on the new man; 25. to cast off lying; 29. and corrupt communication. (19) Who being past feeling . . .--We note that St. Paul, passing lightly over the intellectual loss, dwells on the moral with intense and terrible emphasis. They are (he says) "past feeling"; or, literally, carrying on the metaphor of callousness, they have lost the capacity of pain--the moral pain which is the natural and healthful consequence of sin against our true natures. Consequently, losing in this their true humanity, they give themselves over to "lasciviousness." The word used here (as also in Mark 7:22; Romans 13:13; 2Corinthians 12:21; Galatians 5:19) signifies a lust devoid of all sense of decency, recklessly and grossly animal. Hence its result is not only to work out uncleanness of every kind, but to do so "with greediness," with a reckless delight in foulness for its own sake. The union of this brutality of sensual sin with intellectual acuteness and aesthetic culture was the most horrible feature of that corrupt Greek civilisation, tainted with Oriental grossness, of which he was especially writing.Verse 19. - Who being past feeling. Without sense of shame, without conscience, without fear of God or regard for man, without any perception of the dignity of human nature, the glory of the Divine image, or the degradation of sin. Have given themselves over to lasciviousness to work all uncleanness (fourth point of difference). This is the climax - heathenism in its worst and fullest development, yet by no means rare. The sensuality of the heathen was and is something dreadful. Many of them gave themselves to it as a business, worked at it as at a trade or employment (see Uhlmann's 'Conflict of Christianity with Heathenism,' etc.). Details, such as even the walls of Pompeii furnish, are unfit for the public eye. With greediness, Πλεονεξία means the desire of having more, and has reference to the insatiable character of sensual sins. Sometimes it is translated (A.V.) "covetousness," as Ephesians 5:3. Parallel Commentaries ... Greek Having lost all sense of shame,ἀπηλγηκότες (apēlgēkotes) Verb - Perfect Participle Active - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 524: From apo and algeo; to grieve out, i.e. Become apathetic. [they] οἵτινες (hoitines) Personal / Relative Pronoun - Nominative Masculine Plural Strong's 3748: Whosoever, whichsoever, whatsoever. have given themselves over παρέδωκαν (paredōkan) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural Strong's 3860: From para and didomi; to surrender, i.e yield up, intrust, transmit. to τῇ (tē) Article - Dative Feminine Singular Strong's 3588: The, the definite article. Including the feminine he, and the neuter to in all their inflections; the definite article; the. sensuality ἀσελγείᾳ (aselgeia) Noun - Dative Feminine Singular Strong's 766: From a compound of a and a presumed selges; licentiousness. for εἰς (eis) Preposition Strong's 1519: A primary preposition; to or into, of place, time, or purpose; also in adverbial phrases. [the] practice ἐργασίαν (ergasian) Noun - Accusative Feminine Singular Strong's 2039: From ergates; occupation; by implication, profit, pains. of every kind πάσης (pasēs) Adjective - Genitive Feminine Singular Strong's 3956: All, the whole, every kind of. Including all the forms of declension; apparently a primary word; all, any, every, the whole. of impurity, ἀκαθαρσίας (akatharsias) Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular Strong's 167: Uncleanness, impurity. From akathartos; impurity, physically or morally. with ἐν (en) Preposition Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc. a craving for more. πλεονεξίᾳ (pleonexia) Noun - Dative Feminine Singular Strong's 4124: Covetousness, avarice, aggression, desire for advantage. From pleonektes; avarice, i.e. fraudulency, extortion. Links Ephesians 4:19 NIVEphesians 4:19 NLT Ephesians 4:19 ESV Ephesians 4:19 NASB Ephesians 4:19 KJV Ephesians 4:19 BibleApps.com Ephesians 4:19 Biblia Paralela Ephesians 4:19 Chinese Bible Ephesians 4:19 French Bible Ephesians 4:19 Catholic Bible NT Letters: Ephesians 4:19 Who having become callous gave themselves up (Ephes. Eph. Ep) |
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