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Ephesians 4:18-22 KJV
Ephesians · chapter 4 · verses 18–22
18Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: 19Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 20But ye have not so learned Christ; 21If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: 22That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;Ephesians 4:18-22 · King James Version
Ephesians 4:18-22 in context
16From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth, according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body unto the edifying of itself in love.
17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
18Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:
19Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
20But ye have not so learned Christ;
21If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
22That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
23And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
24And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.
Commentary
Cross references
- Matthew 13:15
- Ephesians 2:12
- Romans 1:21-23
- John 12:40
- Colossians 3:5
- Romans 1:24-26
- 1 Timothy 4:2
- Titus 2:11-14
- John 6:45
- Matthew 11:29
- 1 John 5:20
- Ephesians 1:13
Key words (Strong's)
- lasciviousnessaselgeiaunbridled lust, excess, licentiousness, lasciviousness, wantonness, outrageousness…G766 →
- understandingdianoiathe mind as a faculty of understanding, feeling, desiring, understanding, mindG1271 →
- conversationanastrophēmanner of life, conduct, behaviour, deportmentG391 →
- uncleannessakatharsiauncleanness, physical, in a moral sense the impurity of lustful, luxurious, profligate…G167 →
- themselvesheautouhimself, herself, itself, themselvesG1438 →
- concerningkatadown from, through out, according to, toward, alongG2596 →
- alienatedapallotrioōto alienate, estrange, to be shut out from one s fellowship and intimacyG526 →
- ignoranceagnoialack of knowledge, ignorance, esp. of divine things, of moral blindnessG52 →
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The apostle having gone through his exhortation to mutual love, unity, and concord, in the foregoing verses, there follows in these an exhortation to Christian purity and holiness of heart and life, and that both more general (Eph 4:17-24) and in several particular instances, Eph 4:25-32.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 17-32