17 This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should ano longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,
18 having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the ablindness of their heart;
19awho, being past feeling, bhave given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
28 Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather alet him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something bto give him who has need.
29aLet no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but bwhat is good for necessary edification, cthat it may impart grace to the hearers.
30 And ado not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.
31aLet all bitterness, wrath, anger,1 clamor, and bevil speaking be put away from you, cwith all malice.
32 And abe kind to one another, tenderhearted, bforgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.
Who being past feeling - Wholly hardened in sin. There is a total want of all emotion on moral subjects. This is an accurate description of the state of a sinner. He has no "feeling," no emotion. He often gives an intellectual assent to the truth, But it is without emotion of any kind. The heart is insensible as the hard rock.
Have given themselves over - They have done it voluntarily. In Romans 1:24, it is said that "God gave them up." There is no inconsistency. Whatever was the agency of God in it, they preferred it; compare notes on Romans 1:21.
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