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Ephesians 4:19

eWho being past feeling have given themselves over unto *lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

οἵτινες ἀπηλγηκότες ἑαυτοὺς παρέδωκαν τῇ ἀσελγείᾳ, εἰς ἐργασίαν ἀκαθαρσίας πάσης ἐν πλεονεξίᾳ.

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1 Timothy 4:2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

Romans 1:24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

Romans 1:26 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:

Romans 1:28 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;

1 Peter 4:3 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:

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lasciviousness-lustfulness, sexual wantonness, indecency.

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having lost all sense and conscience of sin: a higher degree or effect of the hardness before mentioned, 1Ti 4:2.

voluntarily yielded themselves up to the power of their own sensuality and lasciviousness, so as to be commanded by it, without resisting it.

not only to burn with inward lusts, but to fulfil them in the outward acts.

all sorts of uncleanness, even the most monstrous, Rom 1:24,26,27 1Co 6:9 Gal 5:19.

either with covetousness, and then it respects those that prostituted themselves for gain; or rather with an insatiable desire of still going on in their filthiness.