Ephesians 4:19

Who having no more power of feeling, have given themselves up to evil passions, to do all unclean things with overmuch desire.

Bible in Basic English

In The King James Version

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

In Context

18Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;

20For this was not the teaching of Christ which was given to you;

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Cross References

Isaiah 56:11Yes, the dogs are for ever looking for food; while these, the keepers of the sheep, are without wisdom: they have all gone after their pleasure, every one looking for profit; they are all the same.

Ephesians 4:17This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,

1 Timothy 4:2Through the false ways of men whose words are untrue, whose hearts are burned as with a heated iron;

2 Peter 2:12But these men, like beasts without reason, whose natural use is to be taken and put to death, crying out against things of which they have no knowledge, will undergo that same destruction which they are designing for others;

Jude 1:11A curse on them! They have gone in the way of Cain, running uncontrolled into the error of Balaam for reward, and have come to destruction by saying evil against the Lord, like Korah.

Revelation 18:3For through the wine of the wrath of her evil desires all the nations have come to destruction; and the kings of the earth made themselves unclean with her, and the traders of the earth had their wealth increased by the power of her evil ways.

Matthew Henry on Ephesians 4:18-32

Exhortation to Purity and Holiness; Cautions against Sin; Against Grieving the Spirit. ( a. d. 61.) 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: 19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 20 But ye have not… Read the whole commentary →

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