And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

However, indeed, when you did not know God, you served those which by nature are not gods.

Therefore remember that you, being Gentiles in the flesh; who are called uncircumcision by what is called the circumcision made in the flesh by hands;

that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the emptiness of their mind,

having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart;

For they themselves declare concerning us what manner of entry we had to you, and how you turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God,

For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, led astray, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in licentiousness, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.

They have mouths, but they do not speak; eyes they have, but they do not see;

they have hands, but they do not handle; feet they have, but they do not walk; nor do they utter through their throat.

They have mouths, but they do not speak; eyes they have, but they do not see;

What does an image profit, that its maker should carve it; a molten image, and a teacher of falsehood, that the maker should trust in his work, to make mute idols?

Woe to him who says to the wood, Awake! To a mute stone, Rise up, it shall teach. Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, but there is no breath at all in it.

Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, both will fall into the ditch.

knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your vain way of life received by tradition from your fathers,