Ephesians 4:17

James Moffatt - New Testament

Now in the Lord I insist and protest that you must give up living like pagans; for their purposes are futile,

Cross References

Romans 1:21

Though they knew God, they have not glorified him as God nor given thanks to him; they have turned to futile speculations till their ignorant minds grew dark.

2 Peter 2:18

By talking arrogant futilities they beguile with the sensual lure of fleshly passion those who are just escaping from the company of misconduct —

Colossians 2:4

I say this to prevent you from being deluded by plausible arguments from anybody;

1 Peter 1:18

you know it was not by perishable silver or gold that you were ransomed from the futile traditions of your past,

Acts 20:21

bearing my testimony, both to Jews and Greeks, of repentance before God and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Acts 18:5

By the time Silas and Timotheus came south from Macedonia, Paul was engrossed in this preaching of the word, arguing to the Jews that the messiah was Jesus.

Acts 14:15

shouting, "Men, what is this you are doing? We are but human, with natures like your own! The gospel we are preaching to you is to turn from such futile ways to the living God who made the heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that in them is.

2 Timothy 4:1

In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus who will judge the living and the dead, in the light of his appearance and his reign,

1 Timothy 6:13

In the presence of God who is the Life of all, and of Christ Jesus who testified to the good confession before Pontius Pilate, I charge you

1 Timothy 5:21

In the presence of God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels, I adjure you to be unprejudiced in carrying out these orders; be absolutely impartial.

1 Thessalonians 4:6

no one is to defraud or overreach his brother in this matter, for the Lord avenges all these sins, as we told you already in our solemn protest against them.

Colossians 2:18

Let no one lay down rules for you as he pleases, with regard to fasting and the cult of angels, presuming on his visions and inflated by his sensuous notions,

Ephesians 4:22

you must lay aside the old nature which belonged to your former course of life, that nature which crumbles to ruin under the passions of moral deceit,

Ephesians 1:22

he has put everything under his feet and set him as head over everything for the church,

Galatians 5:3

I insist on this again to everyone who gets circumcised, that he is obliged to carry out the whole of the Law.

Galatians 3:17

My point is this: the Law which arose four hundred and thirty years later does not repeal a will previously ratified by God, so as to cancel the Promise.

2 Corinthians 9:6

Mark this: he who sows sparingly will reap sparingly, and he who sows generously will reap a generous harvest.

1 Corinthians 15:50

I tell you this, my brothers, flesh and blood cannot inherit the Realm of God, nor can the perishing inherit the imperishable.

1 Corinthians 1:12

By 'quarrelling' I mean that each of you has his party-cry, "I belong to Paul," "And I to Apollos," "And I to Cephas," "And I to Christ."

Acts 2:40

And with many another appeal he urged and entreated them. "Save yourselves," he cried, "from this crooked generation!"

Luke 16:28

for I have five brothers; let him bear testimony to them, that they may not come to this place of torture as well.'