"Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent,

So I gave them over to their own stubborn heart, To walk in their own counsels.

He has not dealt thus with any nation; And [as for His] judgments, they have not known them. Praise the LORD!

"Ephraim [is] joined to idols, Let him alone.

because, although they knew God, they did not glorify [Him] as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

and changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible man -- and birds and four-footed animals and creeping things.

who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.

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.

For we [have spent] enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles -- when we walked in lewdness, lusts, drunkenness, revelries, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.