Ephesians 4:17 - English Standard Version 2016 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds. 更多版本King James Version (Oxford) 1769 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So this I say and solemnly testify in [the name of] the Lord [as in His presence], that you must no longer live as the heathen (the Gentiles) do in their perverseness [in the folly, vanity, and emptiness of their souls and the futility] of their minds. American Standard Version (1901) This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind, Common English Bible So I’m telling you this, and I insist on it in the Lord: you shouldn’t live your life like the Gentiles anymore. They base their lives on pointless thinking, Catholic Public Domain Version And so, I say this, and I testify in the Lord: that from now on you should walk, not as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind, Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version This then I say and testify in the Lord: That henceforward you walk not as also the Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind, |
In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. And I warned them on the day when they sold food.
The Lord has said to you, O remnant of Judah, ‘Do not go to Egypt.’ Know for a certainty that I have warned you this day
If a man lies with a woman and has an emission of semen, both of them shall bathe themselves in water and be unclean until the evening.
for I have five brothers—so that he may warn them, lest they also come into this place of torment.’
“Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men, of like nature with you, and we bring you good news, that you should turn from these vain things to a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them.
When Silas and Timothy arrived from Macedonia, Paul was occupied with the word, testifying to the Jews that the Christ was Jesus.
And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, “Save yourselves from this crooked generation.”
testifying both to Jews and to Greeks of repentance toward God and of faith in our Lord Jesus Christ.
For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.
What I mean is that each one of you says, “I follow Paul,” or “I follow Apollos,” or “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.”
I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
The point is this: whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also reap bountifully.
This is what I mean: the law, which came 430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as to make the promise void.
I testify again to every man who accepts circumcision that he is obligated to keep the whole law.
And he put all things under his feet and gave him as head over all things to the church,
to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,
You shall therefore obey the voice of the Lord your God, keeping his commandments and his statutes, which I command you today.”
Let no one disqualify you, insisting on asceticism and worship of angels, going on in detail about visions, puffed up without reason by his sensuous mind,
that no one transgress and wrong his brother in this matter, because the Lord is an avenger in all these things, as we told you beforehand and solemnly warned you.
In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus and of the elect angels I charge you to keep these rules without prejudging, doing nothing from partiality.
I charge you in the presence of God, who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus, who in his testimony before Pontius Pilate made the good confession,
I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:
knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,
For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error.