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Ephesians 4:19

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

KJV

οἵτινες ἀπηλγηκότες ἑαυτοὺς παρέδωκαν τῇ ἀσελγείᾳ εἰς ἐργασίαν ἀκαθαρσίας πάσης ἐν πλεονεξίᾳ.

Greek NT

qui desperantes, semetipsos tradiderunt impudicitiæ, in operationem immunditiæ omnis in avaritiam.

Vulgate

who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

ASV

Who despairing have given themselves up to lasciviousness, unto the working of all uncleanness, unto covetousness.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

εἰς
eis
preposition · 1769×
παραδίδωμι
paradidomi
verb · 119×
πλεονεξία
pleonexia
noun · 10×
πᾶς
pas
adjective · 1226×
ἀκαθαρσία
akatharsia
noun · 10×
ἀπαλγέω
apalgeo
verb · 1×
ἀσέλγεια
aselgeia
noun · 10×
ἐν
en
preposition · 2743×
ἐργασία
ergasia
noun · 6×
ἑαυτοῦ
eautou
reflexive_pronoun · 316×
o
article · 19778×
ὅστις
ostis
relative_pronoun · 146×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§2518The sixth beatitude proclaims, "Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God."306 "Pure in heart" refers to those who have attuned their intellects and wills to the demands of God's holiness, chiefly in three areas: charity;307 chastity or sexual rectitude;308 love of truth and orthodoxy of faith.309 There is a connection between purity of heart, of body, and of faith:…

Cross-references

  • 1Pet 4:3 — For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
  • 1Thess 4:7 — For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
  • 1Tim 4:2 — Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
  • 1Tim 4:2 — Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
  • 2Pet 2:12 — But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;
  • 2Pet 2:22 — But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.
  • Col 3:5 — Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
  • Col 3:5 — Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
  • Eph 4:17 — This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
  • Eph 5:3 — But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not be once named among you, as becometh saints;
  • Isa 56:11 — Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
  • Jude 1:11 — Woe unto them! for they have gone in the way of Cain, and ran greedily after the error of Balaam for reward, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.
  • Judg 19:25 — But the men would not hearken to him: so the man took his concubine, and brought her forth unto them; and they knew her, and abused her all the night until the morning: and when the day began to sprin
  • Rev 18:3 — For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abunda
  • Rom 1:24 — Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
  • Rom 1:26 — For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: