2017-06-21 20:45:09 +00:00
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## This I say therefore, and I exhort you in the Lord, ##
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"Therefore I strongly encourage you in the Lord"
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## no longer walk as the Gentiles walk in the futility of their minds ##
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"stop living like the Gentiles with their worthless thoughts"
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## being darkened in thought, alienated from the life of God by the ignorance that is in them and by the stubbornness of their heart ##
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"They cannot experience the life of God because their minds have been blinded and their hearts are hard"
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## being darkened in thought ##
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they no longer think or reason clearly.
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## alienated from the life of God ##
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"separated from godly living"
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## by the ignorance that is in them ##
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"because they have no knowledge of God"
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## by the stubbornness of their heart ##
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They refuse to listen to God and follow His teachings.
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## They have handed themselves over to debauchery in impure actions, in every kind of greediness ##
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"They have given their lives to an excessive desire for pleasure by their filthy behavior and greed for everything they desire"
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