unfoldingWord_en_tn/eph/04/17.md

1.2 KiB

translationWords

translationNotes

  • This I say therefore, and I exhort you in the Lord - AT: "Therefore I strongly encourage you in the Lord"
  • no longer walk as the Gentiles walk in the futility of their minds - AT: "stop living like the Gentiles with their worthless thoughts"
  • being darkened in thought, alienated from the life of God by the ignorance that is in them and by the stubbornness of their heart - AT: "They cannot experience the life of God because their minds have been blinded and they are stubborn"
  • being darkened in thought - They no longer think or reason clearly.
  • alienated from the life of God - AT: "separated from godly living"
  • by the ignorance that is in them - AT: "because they have no knowledge of God"
  • by the stubbornness of their heart - They refuse to listen to God and follow His teachings.
  • They have handed themselves over to debauchery in impure actions, in every kind of greediness - AT: "They have given their lives to an excessive desire for pleasure by their evil behavior and greed for everything they desire"