Abandoned Callous Cast Ceased Continual Desire Evil Feel Feeling Greedily Greediness Greedy Impurity Indulge Indulging Kind Lasciviousness Licentiousness Lust Overmuch Passions Past Power Practice Profligacy Sensitivity Sensuality Themselves Unclean Uncleanness Unsatisfied Working
4:19 Who being {b} past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with {c} greediness.
(b) Void of all judgment.
(c) They strove to surpass one another, as though there were some gain to be gotten by it.
4:19 Who being past feeling. Having trampled conscience under foot until it is calloused. Having silenced its admonitions, they give themselves over to
lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. To licentiousness and evil. This description is not overdrawn. Purity of life was not even considered a virtue among the Gentiles of that period.
4:19 Who being past feeling - The original word is peculiarly significant. It properly means, past feeling pain. Pain urges the sick to seek a remedy, which, where there is no pain, is little thought of. Have given themselves up - Freely, of their own accord. Lasciviousness is but one branch of uncleanness, which implies impurity of every kind.
4:17-24 The apostle charged the Ephesians in the name and by the authority of the Lord Jesus, that having professed the gospel, they should not be as the unconverted Gentiles, who walked in vain fancies and carnal affections. Do not men, on every side, walk in the vanity of their minds? Must not we then urge the distinction between real and nominal Christians? They were void of all saving knowledge; they sat in darkness, and loved it rather than light. They had a dislike and hatred to a life of holiness, which is not only the way of life God requires and approves, and by which we live to him, but which has some likeness to God himself in his purity, righteousness, truth, and goodness. The truth of Christ appears in its beauty and power, when it appears as in Jesus. The corrupt nature is called a man; like the human body, it is of divers parts, supporting and strengthening one another. Sinful desires are deceitful lusts; they promise men happiness, but render them more miserable; and bring them to destruction, if not subdued and mortified. These therefore must be put off, as an old garment, a filthy garment; they must be subdued and mortified. But it is not enough to shake off corrupt principles; we must have gracious ones. By the new man, is meant the new nature, the new creature, directed by a new principle, even regenerating grace, enabling a man to lead a new life of righteousness and holiness. This is created, or brought forth by God's almighty power.
Abandoned Callous Cast Ceased Desire Evil Feel Feeling Greedily Greediness Greedy Impurity Indulging Kind Lust Overmuch Passions Past Practice Profligacy Sensuality Themselves Unclean Uncleanness Work Working
Abandoned Callous Cast Ceased Desire Evil Feel Feeling Greedily Greediness Greedy Impurity Indulging Kind Lust Overmuch Passions Past Practice Profligacy Sensuality Themselves Unclean Uncleanness Work Working
