In past generations he allowed all the nations to walk in their own ways.
The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent,
So I gave them over to their stubborn hearts, to follow their own counsels.
For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.
He has not dealt thus with any other nation; they do not know his rules. Praise the Lord!
remember that you were at that time separated from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
For all the peoples walk each in the name of its god, but we will walk in the name of the Lord our God forever and ever.
And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.
For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things. Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves, because they exchanged the truth about God for a lie and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever! Amen.
Ephraim is joined to idols; leave him alone.
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