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This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

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I say.

1 Cor. 1:12• ¹²But I say this, that each of you saith, I am of Paul, and I of Apollos, and I of Cephas, and I of Christ. (1 Cor. 1:12)

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1 Cor. 15:50• ⁵⁰Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit God's kingdom, neither doth corruption inherit incorruption. (1 Cor. 15:50)

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2 Cor. 9:6• ⁶But this [I say], he that soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly; and he that soweth in blessings shall reap also in blessings; (2 Cor. 9:6)

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Gal. 3:17• ¹⁷Now this I say: the covenant ratified beforehand by God, the law, which took place four hundred and thirty years after, doth not annul so as to make the promise void. (Gal. 3:17)

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Col. 2:4• ⁴And this I say that no one may beguile you by persuasive speech. (Col. 2:4)

testify.

Neh. 9:29‑30• (Neh. 9:29‑30)

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Neh. 13:15• (Neh. 13:15)

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Jer. 42:19• (Jer. 42:19)

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Acts 2:40• ⁴⁰And with many other words he testified and exhorted them, saying, Be saved from this perverse generation. (Acts 2:40)

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Acts 18:5• ⁵And when both Silas and Timothy came down from Macedonia, Paul was engrossed with the word testifying to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ. (Acts 18:5)

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Acts 20:21• ²¹testifying both to Jews and to Greeks, repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. (Acts 20:21)

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Gal. 5:3• ³And I witness again to every man if circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. (Gal. 5:3)

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1 Thess. 4:6• ⁶that he should not over-reach and wrong his brother in the matter; because the Lord is an avenger in respect of all these things, even as we told you before and fully testified. (1 Thess. 4:6)

in the.

1 Thess. 4:1‑2• ¹Further, then, brethren, we beseech and exhort you in the Lord Jesus that, as ye received from us how ye ought to walk and please God, even as also ye do walk, ye abound still more.
²For ye know what charges we gave you through the Lord Jesus. (1 Thess. 4:1‑2)

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1 Tim. 5:21• ²¹I testify before God and Christ Jesus and the elect angels that thou keep these things apart from prejudice, doing nothing according to partiality. (1 Tim. 5:21)

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1 Tim. 6:13• ¹³I charge [thee] in the sight of God that keepeth all things alive, and Christ Jesus that witnessed before Pontius Pilate the good confession, (1 Tim. 6:13)

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2 Tim. 4:1• ¹I testify earnestly before God and Christ Jesus that is about to judge living and dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: (2 Tim. 4:1)

that ye.

Eph. 1:22• ²²and put all things under his feet, and gave him as head over all things to the assembly, (Eph. 1:22)

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Eph. 2:1‑3• ¹And you, being dead in your offences and your sins,
²in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;
³among whom we all also had our conversation once in the lusts of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were children, by nature, of wrath even as the rest; (Eph. 2:1‑3)

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Eph. 5:3‑8• ³But fornication and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not be even named among you, even as becometh saints;
⁴and filthiness and foolish talking or jesting, which are not becoming, but rather thanksgiving.
⁵For this ye are aware of, knowing that no fornicator nor unclean nor covetous [person], who is an idolater, hath inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.
⁶Let no one deceive you by vain words; for on account of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.
⁷Be not therefore fellow-partakers with them;
⁸for ye were once darkness but now [are] light in the Lord: walk as children of light (Eph. 5:3‑8)

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Rom. 1:23‑32• ²³and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for a likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of winged and four-footed and creeping [creatures].
²⁴Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness so that their bodies were dishonoured among them;
²⁵which exchanged the truth of God for falsehood, and served and reverenced the creature rather than the Creator who is blessed forever, Amen.
²⁶On this account God gave them up to vile passions; for both their females exchanged the natural use into the unnatural,
²⁷and likewise the males also, leaving the natural use of the female, were inflamed in their lust toward one another, males with males working out unseemliness, and receiving in themselves the recompense of their error which was meet.
²⁸And even as they disapproved to have God in acknowledgment, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind to do improper things;
²⁹being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, ill-will; whisperers,
³⁰slanderers, God-hated, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
³¹void of understanding, faithless, without natural affection, pitiless;
³²which, knowing right well the righteous award of God that they who do such things are worthy of death, not only practice them but also have a fellow-pleasure in those that do [them]. (Rom. 1:23‑32)

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1 Cor. 6:9‑11• ⁹What! know ye not that unjust [men] shall not inherit God's kingdom? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor abusers of themselves as women, nor abusers of themselves with men,
¹⁰nor rapacious, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit God's kingdom.
¹¹And these things were some of you. But ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus [Christ] and by the Spirit of our God. (1 Cor. 6:9‑11)

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Gal. 5:19‑21• ¹⁹Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are fornication, uncleanness, licentiousness,
²⁰idolatry, sorcery, hatreds, strifes, jealousies, bursts of passion, contentions, divisions, parties,
²¹envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revels, and things like these, as to which I forewarn you, even as also I forewarned, that they who do such things shall not inherit God's kingdom. (Gal. 5:19‑21)

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Col. 3:5‑8• ⁵Put to death therefore your members that [are] on the earth, fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
⁶on account of which things cometh the wrath of God [upon the sons of disobedience]:
⁷in which ye also once walked when ye lived in these things.
⁸But now do ye also put off the whole: wrath, anger, malice, blasphemy, vile language out of your mouth. (Col. 3:5‑8)

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1 Peter 4:3‑4• ³For the past time [is] sufficient to have wrought out the will of the Gentiles, walking as ye had done in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-bibbings, revels, carousings, and unhallowed idolatries;
⁴wherein they think it strange that ye run not with [them] into the same excess of profligacy, speaking injuriously, (1 Peter 4:3‑4)

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Psa. 94:8‑11• (Psa. 94:8‑11)

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Acts 14:15• ¹⁵and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like affections with you, preaching to you that ye should turn from these vain things unto a living God, who made the heaven and the earth, and the sea and all things in them; (Acts 14:15)

• The moment that we reflect, the wisdom of such an exhortation is apparent; for Christians are ordinarily liable to be much influenced by the tone of thought and feeling current in the world outside. (“Remarks on Ephesians 4:17-27” by W. Kelly)

• You will find that our tendency is to occupy ourselves and others with something outward. But the apostle goes to the root of the evil walk of the Gentiles. Their minds were vain and empty, as all must be, who have not God distinctly and positively, and intelligently before them in any matter. (“Remarks on Ephesians 4:17-27” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye should no longer walk asa the rest of the nations walk in the vanity of their mind,

JND Translation Notes

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Lit. "as also," or "even as."

W. Kelly Translation

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This then I say and testify in [the] Lord that ye should no longer walk even as also the rest of the nations walk in vanity of their mind,