For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:
Parallel translations
- WEB for which things’ sake the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.
- BSB Because of these, the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.
- NKJV Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience,
- NASB For it is because of these things that the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience,
- NLT Because of these sins, the anger of God is coming.
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Because of such sins the wrath of God comes on the disobedient. These practices invite divine judgment.
Overview
Paul reminds them that 'the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience' on account of the sins just listed. God's righteous judgment against sin is real and a sober reason to forsake it. This warning underlines why believers, rescued from that wrath through Christ, must turn from such ways.
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Cross-references · 8
- Eph 5:6Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
- Rom 1:18For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness;
- 1 Pet 1:14As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:
- Ezek 16:45–46Thou art thy mother’s daughter, that lotheth her husband and her children; and thou art the sister of thy sisters, which lothed their husbands and their children: your mother was an Hittite, and your father an Amorite.
- Rev 22:15For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.
- Isa 57:4Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,
- 2 Pet 2:14Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
- Eph 2:2–3Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
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