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31 lines
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## This I say therefore, and I exhort you in the Lord ##
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AT: "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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AT: "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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AT: "They cannot experience the life of God because their minds have been blinded and they are stubborn"
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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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AT: "separated from godly living"
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## by the ignorance that is in them ##
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AT: "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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AT: "They have given their lives to an excessive desire for pleasure by their evil behavior and greed for everything they desire" |