17 [a]This I say therefore and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as (A)other Gentiles walk, in [b]vanity of their mind.

18 Having their understanding darkened, and being strangers from the [c]life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart:

19 Which being [d]past feeling, have given themselves unto wantonness, to work all uncleanness, even with [e]greediness.

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 4:17 He descendeth to the fruits of Christian doctrine, and reasoneth first upon the principles of manners and actions, setting down a most grave comparison between the children of God, and them which are not regenerate. For in these men, all the powers of the mind are corrupted and their mind is given to vanity, and their senses are darkened with most gross mistiness, and their affections are so accustomed by little and little to wickedness, that at length they run headlong into all uncleanness, being utterly destitute of all judgment.
  2. Ephesians 4:17 If the noblest parts of the soul be corrupt, what is man but corruption only?
  3. Ephesians 4:18 Whereby God liveth in them.
  4. Ephesians 4:19 Void of all judgment.
  5. Ephesians 4:19 They strove to pass one another as though there had been some gain to be gotten by it.

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