Ephesians 4:17 Cross References - Godbey

¹⁷ Therefore I say this, and witness in the Lord, that you no longer walk about as the Gentiles also walk about in the vanity of their mind,

⁴⁰ And with many other words did he testify and exhort them, saying, Be saved from this wicked generation.

¹⁵ Men, why are you doing these things? We are also men of like suffering with you, preaching the gospel to you that you should turn from these vanities to the living God, who created the heaven, and the earth, and the sea, and all things which are in them:

⁵ And when both Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was straitened with the word, witnessing to the Jews that Jesus is the Christ.

²¹ witnessing both to Jews, and to Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

²¹ because, knowing God, they did not glorify Him as God, neither were they thankful; but they became vain in their reasonings, and their foolish heart was darkened.

²³ and changed the glory of the invisible God into the similitude of the likeness of corruptible man, and of birds, and of quadrupeds, and of creeping things. ²⁴ Therefore God gave them up, in the lusts of their hearts, to impurity, to dishonor their bodies among themselves: ²⁵ who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for evermore: amen. ²⁶ On account of this God gave them up to the lusts of dishonor: for indeed their women changed the natural use to that which is against nature: ²⁷ likewise also the men, having left the natural use of the woman, burned in their desire towards one another; men with men working out disgrace, and receiving the reward of their error among themselves which it behooved. ²⁸ And as they did not approve to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are inappropriate; ²⁹ being filled with all injustice, wickedness, vice, covetousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceitfulness, evil affection; ³⁰ whisperers, calumniators, haters of God, insulters, proud, arrogant, practitioners of evils, disobedient to parents, ³¹ covenant-breakers, incontinent, without natural affections, unmerciful, ³² who, knowing the rightfulness of God, that those who do such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but they even delight in those who are doing them.

¹² And I say this, that each one says, I indeed am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

⁹ Do you not know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? He not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor Sodomites, ¹⁰ nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor scolds, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. ¹¹ And such were some of you: but you have washed, but you have been sanctified, but you have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and by the Spirit of our God.

⁵⁰ But I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood are not able to inherit the kingdom of God; neither does corruption inherit incorruption.

⁶ But it is this, he that soweth sparingly shall also reap sparingly; and he that soweth bountifully shall also reap bountifully.

¹⁷ And I say this; The law which was given after four hundred and thirty years, does not disannul the covenant which had been before confirmed of God, so as to make the promise of none effect.

³ And again I witness to every man who is circumcised, that he is debtor to do the whole law.

¹⁹ But the works of carnality are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, debauchery, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, animosities, selfseekings, divisions, heresies, ²¹ envyings, drunkenness, revellings, and things like unto these: which I tell you beforehand, as I did previously say to you, that those doing such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

²² and has subordinated all things beneath his feet, and given him to be head over all things to the church,

¹ You, who were dead in trespasses and in your sins, ² in which at one time you walked about according to the age of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit which is now working in the sons of disobedience; ³ among whom we all indeed at one time lived in the lusts of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the thoughts, and we were by nature the children of wrath, like the rest also:

²² that with reference to your former life, you are to lay aside the old man, who is corrupt in the lusts of deception;

³ But all fornication, and uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be named among you, as it becomes saints; ⁴ and indecorum, or foolish talking, or indecent jesting, which is not becoming, but rather the giving of thanks: ⁵ for you are knowing this, that no fornicator, or unclean person, or covetous, who is an idolater, has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God. ⁶ Let no one deceive you with empty words: for through these the wrath of God comes on the sons of disobedience. ⁷ Therefore be not partakers along with them. ⁸ For at one time ye were darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord: walk about as children of the light,

⁴ I say this in order that no one may deceive you with a persuasive speech.

¹⁸ Let no one purposely rob you of your prize by humiliation and worship of the angels, trusting in those things which he has seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his depravity,

⁵ Therefore kill your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry; ⁶ through which the wrath of God comes. ⁷ In which you indeed at one time did walk about, when you lived in them: ⁸ but you also lay aside all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, disgraceful talk out of your mouths:

¹ Finally therefore, brethren, we pray you and exhort you in the Lord Jesus, that as you received from us how it behooves you to walk about and to please God, as you do indeed walk about, in order that you may abound more and more. ² For you know what promises we gave unto you through our Lord Jesus.

⁶ that one should overreach and defraud his brother in a business transaction: because the Lord is the avenger concerning these things, as we indeed before told you and witnessed to you.

²¹ I testify before God, and Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that you must guard these things without prejudice, doing nothing by partiality.

¹³ I charge you before God, who creates life in all things, and Jesus Christ, who witnessed a beautiful testimony before Pontius Pilate,

¹ In the presence of God, and Jesus Christ, the one about to judge the living and the dead, I testify to, both his appearing and his kingdom;

¹⁸ knowing that you have been redeemed from your depraved character transmitted from your ancestors, not by corruptible things, silver or gold,

³ For the past time is sufficient to have wrought the will of the heathens, walking in impurities, in lusts, in wine-drinkings, in revelries, in intemperance, and in unlawful idolatries: ⁴ in which they are astonished you not running to the same excess of wrath, blaspheming;

¹⁸ For speaking swelling words of vanity, in the lusts of the flesh they beguile with their impurities, those that have but partially escaped, who are still moving about in their delusion;