Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
Parallel translations
- WEB who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
- BSB Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.
- NKJV who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
- NASB and they, having become callous, have given themselves up to indecent behavior for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.
- NLT They have no sense of shame. They live for lustful pleasure and eagerly practice every kind of impurity.
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Quick answer
Hardened consciences lead to unrestrained indulgence in impurity. When people silence conscience, sin grows greedy and unchecked.
Overview
Paul completes his description of pagan life: callousness toward God produces moral abandonment, giving oneself over to lust and every uncleanness 'with greediness.' The progression shows sin's downward pull when conscience is suppressed. This dark backdrop sets up the bright contrast of the new self created in Christ.
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- Rom 1:24–26Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
- Col 3:5Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:
- 1 Tim 4:2Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
- Jude 1:11Woe 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.
- 2 Pet 2:12–14But 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;
- 1 Pet 4:3For 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:
- Rev 18:3For 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 abundance of her delicacies.
- 2 Pet 2:22But 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.
- Isa 56:11Yea, 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.
- Eph 4:17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,
- Job 15:16How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
- Rev 17:1–6And there came one of the seven angels which had the seven vials, and talked with me, saying unto me, Come hither; I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters:
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