because, although they once knew God, they did not honor Him as God, or give Him thanks, but became silly in their senseless speculations, and so their insensible hearts have been shrouded in darkness.

Indeed, I am the fragrance of Christ to God, alike for those who are being saved and for those who are perishing;

For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, immorality, stealing, false witnessing, irreverent speech.

Whatever is born of the physical is physical, and whatever is born of the Spirit is spiritual.

For everybody has sinned and everybody continues to come short of God's glory,

You too were dead because of the shortcomings and sins

and practice living in love, just as Christ loved you too and gave Himself for you as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

I have received your payment in full, and more too. I am amply supplied after getting the things you sent by Epaphroditus; they are like sweet incense, the kind of sacrifice that God accepts and approves.

Because one's thinking the things suggested by the lower nature means enmity to God, for it does not subject itself to God's law, nor indeed can it.

But anyone is tempted to do evil when he is allured by his own evil desire and enticed by a bait.

What causes wars and quarrels among you? Is it not your different desires which are ever at war within your bodies? You desire things and cannot have them, and so you commit murder.

by which also the world, through being deluged with water, was destroyed.

We know that we are children of God, and that the whole world is under the power of the evil one.

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Summary

And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.

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Indeed, I am the fragrance of Christ to God, alike for those who are being saved and for those who are perishing;
and practice living in love, just as Christ loved you too and gave Himself for you as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.
I have received your payment in full, and more too. I am amply supplied after getting the things you sent by Epaphroditus; they are like sweet incense, the kind of sacrifice that God accepts and approves.

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by which also the world, through being deluged with water, was destroyed.
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