If you return to the Almighty, you will be renewed. If you banish injustice from your tent
Ephesians 4:22 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised to take off , your former way of life, the old self that is corrupted by deceitful desires, Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 that ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Strip yourselves of your former nature [put off and discard your old unrenewed self] which characterized your previous manner of life and becomes corrupt through lusts and desires that spring from delusion; American Standard Version (1901) that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit; Common English Bible change the former way of life that was part of the person you once were, corrupted by deceitful desires. Catholic Public Domain Version to set aside your earlier behavior, the former man, who was corrupted, by means of desire, unto error, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version To put off, according to former conversation, the old man, who is corrupted according to the desire of error. |
If you return to the Almighty, you will be renewed. If you banish injustice from your tent
The wicked person earns an empty wage, but the one who sows righteousness, a true reward.
The heart is more deceitful than anything else, and incurable #– #who can understand it?
As to the terror you cause, your arrogant heart has deceived you. You who live in the clefts of the rock, you who occupy the mountain summit, though you elevate your nest like the eagles, even from there I will bring you down. This is the Lord’s declaration.
Your arrogant heart has deceived you, you who live in clefts of the rock ,, in your home on the heights, who say to yourself, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground? ’
For we know that our old self , was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be rendered powerless, so that we may no longer be enslaved to sin,
For sin, seizing an opportunity through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.
But I fear that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his cunning, your minds may be seduced from a sincere and pure devotion to Christ.
For you have heard about my former way of life in Judaism: I intensely persecuted God’s church and tried to destroy it.
We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly desires, carrying out the inclinations of our flesh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under wrath as the others were also.
Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thoughts.
Therefore, putting away lying, speak the truth, each one to his neighbour, , because we are members of one another.
Let all bitterness, anger and wrath, shouting and slander be removed from you, along with all malice.
You were also circumcised in him with a circumcision not done with hands, by putting off the body of flesh, in the circumcision of Christ,
For we too were once foolish, disobedient, deceived, enslaved by various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, detesting one another.
Therefore, since we also have such a large cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us lay aside every hindrance and the sin that so easily ensnares us. Let us run with endurance the race that lies before us,
But encourage each other daily, while it is still called today, so that none of you is hardened by sin’s deception.
Therefore, ridding yourselves of all moral filth and the evil that is so prevalent, humbly receive the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
If anyone thinks he is religious without controlling his tongue, his religion is useless and he deceives himself.
For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold,
For there has already been enough time spent in doing what the Gentiles choose to do: carrying on in unrestrained behaviour, evil desires, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and lawless idolatry.
They will be paid back with harm for the harm they have done. They consider it a pleasure to carouse in broad daylight. They are spots and blemishes, delighting in their deceptions while they feast with you.
and if he rescued righteous Lot, distressed by the depraved behaviour of the immoral
and said to her, ‘How long are you going to be drunk? Get rid of your wine! ’