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Ephesians 4:19

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.

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ASV

who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

KJV

Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

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12 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
οἵτινεςoitineswhoG3748 →
ἀπηλγηκότεςapēlgēkoteshaving cast off all feelingG524 →
ἑαυτοὺςhe'autousthemselvesG1438 →
παρέδωκανparedōkanthey gave upG3860 →
τῇtēa<the>G3588 →
ἀσελγείᾳaselgeiato sensualityG766 →
εἰςeisforG1519 →
ἐργασίανergasian[the] workingG2039 →
ἀκαθαρσίαςakatharsiasof impurityG167 →
πάσηςpasēsallG3956 →
ἐνenwithG1722 →
πλεονεξίᾳ.¶pleonexiagreediness.G4124 →

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Romans 1:26For this reason God gave them over to dishonorable passions. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones.Colossians 3:5Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.Romans 1:24–26Therefore God gave them over in the desires of their hearts to impurity for the dishonoring of their bodies with one another.1 Timothy 4:2influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.1 Thessalonians 4:7For God has not called us to impurity, but to holiness.Jude 1:11Woe to them! They have traveled the path of Cain; they have rushed headlong into the error of Balaam; they have perished in Korah’s rebellion.Revelation 18:3All the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from the extravagance of her luxury.”1 Peter 4:3For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.2 Peter 2:12–14These men are like irrational animals, creatures of instinct, born to be captured and destroyed. They blaspheme in matters they do not understand, and like such creatures, they too will be destroyed.Ephesians 4:17So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.Isaiah 56:11Like ravenous dogs, they are never satisfied. They are shepherds with no discernment; they all turn to their own way, each one seeking his own gain:2 Peter 2:22Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”Judges 19:25But the men would not listen to him. So the Levite took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go.Job 15:16how much less man, who is vile and corrupt, who drinks injustice like water?1 Kings 21:20When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him, “So you have found me out, my enemy.” He replied, “I have found you out because you have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the LORD.Proverbs 23:35“They struck me, but I feel no pain! They beat me, but I did not know it! When can I wake up to search for another drink?”Revelation 17:1–6Then one of the seven angels with the seven bowls came and said to me, “Come, I will show you the punishment of the great prostitute, who sits on many waters.2 Peter 2:10Such punishment is specially reserved for those who indulge the corrupt desires of the flesh and despise authority. Bold and self-willed, they are unafraid to slander glorious beings.

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The Ascension — Gustave Doré (engraving, public domain)
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