⁵ not in the passion of lust, even as the Gentiles who don't know God;

⁸ However at that time, not knowing God, you were in bondage to those who by nature are not gods.

²⁶ For this reason, God gave them up to vile passions. For their women changed the natural function into that which is against nature.

⁸ giving vengeance to those who don't know God, and to those who don't obey the Gospel of our Lord Jesus,

³⁰ The times of ignorance therefore God overlooked. But now he commands that all people everywhere should repent,

³¹ because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead."

³ For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.

⁵ Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;

¹⁷ This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

¹⁸ being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;

¹⁹ who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

¹² that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

³⁴ Wake up righteously, and don't sin, for some have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

²¹ For seeing that in the wisdom of God, the world through its wisdom didn't know God, it was God's good pleasure through the foolishness of the preaching to save those who believe.

²⁸ Even as they refused to have God in their knowledge, God gave them up to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;

²⁴ Therefore God also gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves,

²³ For as I passed along, and observed the objects of your worship, I found also an altar with this inscription: 'TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.' What therefore you worship in ignorance, this I announce to you.

³⁰ For the nations of the world seek after all of these things, but your Father knows that you need these things.

³² For the Gentiles seek after all these things, for your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things.