Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

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

In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: {taking: or, yielding}

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

And even as they did not like to retain God in {their} knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; {to retain: or, to acknowledge} {a reprobate...: or, a mind void of judgment or, an unapproving mind}

Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak {this} to your shame.

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:

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:

That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you. {devotions: or, gods that ye worship}

(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

As obedient children, not fashioning yourselves according to the former lusts in your ignorance:

Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: {blindness: or, hardness}

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:

Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak {this} to your shame.

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:

That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling {words}, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry:

In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: {taking: or, yielding}

Surely such {are} the dwellings of the wicked, and this {is} the place {of him that} knoweth not God.

Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

What shall we say then? {Is} the law sin? God forbid. Nay, I had not known sin, but by the law: for I had not known lust, except the law had said, Thou shalt not covet. {lust: or, concupiscence}

For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, that ye should obey it in the lusts thereof.

For Jacob my servant's sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.