Ephesians 4:17 Cross References - WPNT

¹⁷ So then, I affirm and insist on this in the Lord: you must no longer carry on as the rest of the Gentiles do, in the futility of their mind,

⁴⁰ With many different words he both testified and kept exhorting, saying, “Escape from this perverse generation!”

¹⁵ and saying: “Men, why are you doing these things? We also are men with the same nature as you, giving you good news, telling you to turn from these useless things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all that is in them;

⁵ But when Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was constrained by the Spirit, solemnly insisting to the Jews: Jesus is the Christ.

²¹ solemnly proclaiming to both Jews and Greeks the repentance toward God and the faith into our Lord Jesus.

²¹ precisely because, knowing God, they neither glorified Him as God nor gave thanks; so their reasonings became worthless and their senseless hearts were darkened.

²³ and exchanged for themselves the glory of the incorruptible God for an image resembling a perishable man —even birds and quadrupeds and reptiles! ²⁴ Therefore God also gave them up, through the cravings of their hearts for vileness, to the degrading of their bodies among themselves ²⁵ —they had exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen. ²⁶ For this reason God gave them up to degrading passions; in fact even their females exchanged the natural sexual function for that against nature; ²⁷ likewise also the males, abandoning the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust toward one another, males committing the disgraceful act with males, and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error. ²⁸ So precisely because they determined not to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a debased mind, to do wrong things: ²⁹ having been filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, greed, depravity; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity; gossips, ³⁰ slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant, braggarts, contrivers of evil things, disobedient to parents, ³¹ senseless, faithless, hardhearted, intransigent, unmerciful; ³² who, knowing full well God’s just sentence, that those who practice such things are deserving of death, not only do them but also approve of other practitioners.

¹² What I mean is that you are individually saying: “I am of Paul”, or “I am of Apollos”, or “I am of Cephas”, or “I am of Christ”!

⁹ Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the Kingdom of God? Do not be deceived! Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor catamites, nor sodomites, ¹⁰ nor the greedy, nor thieves, nor drunkards, nor the abusive, nor swindlers can inherit the Kingdom of God, absolutely. ¹¹ And that is what some of you were; but you were bathed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

⁵⁰ Now this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God; neither will deterioration inherit incorruptibility.

⁶ Now then, whoever sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows generously will also reap generously.

¹⁷ Further, I say this: a covenant confirmed beforehand by God in Christ cannot be annulled by the law that came four hundred and thirty years later, so as to make the promise of no effect.

³ Further, I testify again to every man who gets circumcised that he is obligated to keep the whole law.

¹⁹ Now the works of the flesh are obvious, namely: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness, ²⁰ idolatry, sorcery, hatred, strife, jealousies, fits of anger, selfish ambition, dissentions, factions, ²¹ envyings, murders, drinking bouts, orgies, and the like; about which I am warning you beforehand, as, in fact, I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

²² In short, He\up6 [F]\up0 placed everything under His\up6 [S]\up0 feet and appointed Him to be Head over everything in the Church,

¹ He\up6 [F]\up0 raised you up as well, when you were dead in your transgressions and sins, ² in which you once walked, according to the Aeon of this world, the ruler of the domain of the air, the spirit who is now at work in the sons of the disobedience; ³ among whom all of us also used to conduct ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the flesh and of the senses, and were by nature children of wrath, just like the rest.

²² that you put away, concerning your former way of life, the old man (that keeps on being corrupted by the deceitful desires),

³ But, you should not even talk about fornication or any form of moral corruption or insatiableness (as is fitting for saints); ⁴ nor any obscenity, nor foolish talk or coarse joking (that do not belong), but rather thanksgiving. ⁵ Because you can know this for sure: no fornicator, nor anyone who is morally corrupt or insatiable (actually an idolater), has any inheritance in the Kingdom of the Christ and God. ⁶ Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of the disobedience. ⁷ Therefore do not be participants with them ⁸ —even though you were once darkness, you are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light

⁴ Now I say this so that no one may deceive you with specious arguments.

¹⁸ Nor let anyone disqualify you, taking pleasure in a subservience and devotion to the angels, ‘taking possession’ of things that he has not seen, being puffed up by his carnal mind to no useful purpose,

⁵ Therefore put to death your members that are on the earth: fornication, filthiness, passion, evil desire, and the greediness that is idolatry. ⁶ Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, ⁷ in which things you yourselves once walked when you lived in them. ⁸ But now you must also rid yourselves of all these—anger, rage, malice, slander, obscene speech—out of your mouth.

¹ Finally then, brothers, we urge and exhort you in the Lord Jesus: as you received from us how you ought to behave and please God, do so even more ² —you know what instructions we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

⁶ that no one trespass and defraud his brother in this matter, because the Lord is the avenger of all such behavior, as, indeed, we have already told you and warned you.

²¹ I charge you in the presence of God and the Lord Jesus Christ and the elect angels that you observe these things without prejudgment, doing nothing by partiality.

¹³ In the presence of the God who gives life to all things, and of Christ Jesus who testified the good confession before Pontius Pilate, I charge you

¹ Now then, in the presence of God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is about to judge both living and dead with a view to His appearing and His Kingdom, I give you this charge:

¹⁸ knowing that it was not with perishable things (silver or gold) that you were redeemed from the futile way of life handed down by your forefathers,

³ Because the time that has passed is plenty for you to have performed the will of the pagans—having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, carousings and disgusting idolatries— ⁴ in regard to which they are disagreeably surprised at your not running with them into the same flood of debauchery, reviling you;

¹⁸ Because speaking pompous words of emptiness they entice through fleshly lusts, through licentiousness, those who have actually escaped from those who are living in error,