how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, one who drinks iniquity like water!
Ephesians 4:19 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 They have lost all sensitivity and have abandoned themselves to licentiousness, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition In their spiritual apathy they have become callous and past feeling and reckless and have abandoned themselves [a prey] to unbridled sensuality, eager and greedy to indulge in every form of impurity [that their depraved desires may suggest and demand]. American Standard Version (1901) who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. Common English Bible They are people who lack all sense of right and wrong, and who have turned themselves over to doing whatever feels good and to practicing every sort of corruption along with greed. Catholic Public Domain Version Such as these, despairing, have given themselves over to sexual immorality, carrying out every impurity with rapacity. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Who despairing, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, unto the working of all uncleanness, unto the working of all uncleanness, unto covetousness. |
how much less one who is abominable and corrupt, one who drinks iniquity like water!
The dogs have a mighty appetite; they never have enough. The shepherds also have no understanding; they have all turned to their own way, to their own gain, one and all.
adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, folly.
Now this I affirm and insist on in the Lord: you must no longer walk as the gentiles walk, in the futility of their minds;
Put to death, therefore, whatever in you is earthly: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed (which is idolatry).
through the hypocrisy of liars whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.
You have already spent enough time in doing what the gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.
It has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns back to its own vomit,” and, “The sow is washed only to wallow in the mud.”
Woe to them! For they go the way of Cain and abandon themselves to Balaam’s error for the sake of gain and perish in Korah’s rebellion.
For all the nations have fallen from the wine of the wrath of her prostitution, and the kings of the earth have engaged in sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown rich from the power of her luxury.”