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Forc we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

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1 Cor. 6:11• ¹¹And these things were some of you; but ye have been washed, but ye have been sanctified, but ye have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. (1 Cor. 6:11)

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1 Peter 4:3• ³For the time past is sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, walking in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-drinking, revels, drinkings, and unhallowed idolatries. (1 Peter 4:3)

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we.

Rom. 3:9‑20• ⁹What then? are we better? No, in no wise: for we have before charged both Jews and Greeks with being all under sin:
¹⁰according as it is written, There is not a righteous man, not even one;
¹¹there is not the man that understands, there is not one that seeks after God.
¹²All have gone out of the way, they have together become unprofitable; there is not one that practises goodness, there is not so much as one:
¹³their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; asps' poison is under their lips:
¹⁴whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness;
¹⁵swift their feet to shed blood;
¹⁶ruin and misery are in their ways,
¹⁷and way of peace they have not known:
¹⁸there is no fear of God before their eyes.
¹⁹Now we know that whatever the things the law says, it speaks to those under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world be under judgment to God.
²⁰Wherefore by works of law no flesh shall be justified before him; for by law is knowledge of sin. (Rom. 3:9‑20)

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1 Cor. 6:9‑11• ⁹Do ye not know that unrighteous persons shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not err: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor those who make women of themselves, nor who abuse themselves with men,
¹⁰nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor abusive persons, nor the rapacious, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
¹¹And these things were some of you; but ye have been washed, but ye have been sanctified, but ye have been justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. (1 Cor. 6:9‑11)

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Eph. 2:1‑3• ¹and *you*, being dead in your offences and sins--
²in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience:
³among whom *we* also all once had our conversation in the lusts of our flesh, doing what the flesh and the thoughts willed to do, and were children, by nature, of wrath, even as the rest: (Eph. 2:1‑3)

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Col. 1:21• ²¹And you, who once were alienated and enemies in mind by wicked works, yet now has it reconciled (Col. 1:21)

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Col. 3:7• ⁷In which *ye* also once walked when ye lived in these things. (Col. 3:7)

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1 Peter 4:1‑3• ¹Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, do *ye* also arm yourselves with the same mind; for he that has suffered in the flesh has done with sin,
²no longer to live the rest of his time in the flesh to men's lusts, but to God's will.
³For the time past is sufficient for us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, walking in lasciviousness, lusts, wine-drinking, revels, drinkings, and unhallowed idolatries. (1 Peter 4:1‑3)

foolish.

Prov. 1:22‑23• ²²How long, simple ones, will ye love simpleness, and scorners take pleasure in their scorning, and the foolish hate knowledge?
²³Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour forth my spirit unto you, I will make known to you my words. (Prov. 1:22‑23)

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Prov. 8:5• ⁵O ye simple, understand prudence; and ye foolish, understand sense. (Prov. 8:5)

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Prov. 9:6• ⁶Forsake follies and live, and go in the way of intelligence. (Prov. 9:6)

disobedient.

Matt. 21:29• ²⁹And he answering said, I will not; but afterwards repenting himself he went. (Matt. 21:29)

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Acts 9:1‑6• ¹But Saul, still breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, came to the high priest
²and asked of him letters to Damascus, to the synagogues, so that if he found any who were of the way, both men and women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.
³But as he was journeying, it came to pass that he drew near to Damascus; and suddenly there shone round about him a light out of heaven,
⁴and falling on the earth he heard a voice saying to him, Saul, Saul, why dost thou persecute me?
⁵And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, *I* am Jesus, whom *thou* persecutest.
⁶But rise up and enter into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do. (Acts 9:1‑6)

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Acts 26:19‑20• ¹⁹Whereupon, king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision;
²⁰but have, first to those both in Damascus and Jerusalem, and to all the region of Judaea, and to the nations, announced that they should repent and turn to God, doing works worthy of repentance. (Acts 26:19‑20)

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Eph. 2:2• ²in which ye once walked according to the age of this world, according to the ruler of the authority of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience: (Eph. 2:2)

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1 Peter 1:14• ¹⁴as children of obedience, not conformed to your former lusts in your ignorance; (1 Peter 1:14)

deceived.

Isa. 44:20• ²⁰He feedeth on ashes; a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand? (Isa. 44:20)

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Obad. 3• ³The pride of thy heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high;--he that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground? (Obad. 3)

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Luke 21:8• ⁸And he said, See that ye be not led astray, for many shall come in my name, saying, *I* am he, and the time is drawn nigh: go ye not therefore after them. (Luke 21:8)

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Gal. 6:3• ³For if any man reputes himself to be something, being nothing, he deceives himself; (Gal. 6:3)

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James 1:26• ²⁶If any one think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue, but deceiving his heart, this man's religion is vain. (James 1:26)

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Rev. 12:9• ⁹And the great dragon was cast out, the ancient serpent, he who is called Devil and Satan, he who deceives the whole habitable world, he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. (Rev. 12:9)

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Rev. 13:14• ¹⁴And it deceives those that dwell upon the earth by reason of the signs which it was given to it to work before the beast, saying to those that dwell upon the earth to make an image to the beast, which has the wound of the sword, and lived. (Rev. 13:14)

serving.

John 8:34• ³⁴Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say to you, Every one that practises sin is the bondman of sin. (John 8:34)

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Rom. 6:17,22• ¹⁷But thanks be to God, that ye were bondmen of sin, but have obeyed from the heart the form of teaching into which ye were instructed.
²²But *now*, having got your freedom from sin, and having become bondmen to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end eternal life. (Rom. 6:17,22)

living.

Rom. 1:29‑31• ²⁹being filled with all unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil dispositions; whisperers,
³⁰back-biters, hateful to God, insolent, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents,
³¹void of understanding, faithless, without natural affection, unmerciful; (Rom. 1:29‑31)

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2 Cor. 12:20• ²⁰For I fear lest perhaps coming I find you not such as I wish, and that *I* be found by you such as ye do not wish: lest there might be strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, evil speakings, whisperings, puffings up, disturbances; (2 Cor. 12:20)

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2 Tim. 3:2‑3• ²for men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, evil speakers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, profane,
³without natural affection, implacable, slanderers, of unsubdued passions, savage, having no love for what is good, (2 Tim. 3:2‑3)

hateful.

Psa. 36:2• ²For he flattereth himself in his own eyes, even when his iniquity is found to be hateful. (Psa. 36:2)

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Rev. 18:2• ²And he cried with a strong voice, saying, Great Babylon has fallen, has fallen, and has become the habitation of demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean and hated bird; (Rev. 18:2)

• It is evident that this was intended to strengthen the duty of subjection to authority on the one hand, and on the other the spirit of mild and meek bearing to all mankind, in all those who bear the name of the Lord. Grace was to prevail and display itself all round. (“On Titus 3:3” by W. Kelly)

• From a condition so desperate Christ; Himself the obedient Man, though infinitely more than man, alone delivers, and this by imparting His own life through faith. (“On Titus 3:3” by W. Kelly)

• We were not only wandering in error, but "deceived," however highly we may have thought of our independence and shrewd judgment. (“On Titus 3:3” by W. Kelly)

• Nor was the evil confined to disease of the mind. We were "serving divers lusts and pleasures"; so much the more bondmen, because we flattered ourselves that we were pre-eminently free. We did our own will and pleased ourselves; we chose our pleasures here or there as we liked. What was this but to be slaves of the devil when we were pursuing divers lusts and pleasures? Our will is his slavery. (“On Titus 3:3” by W. Kelly)

• The thought that it is sin, and that we also were formerly its slaves, produces patience and piety. Grace alone has made the difference. (“Titus 3” by J.N. Darby)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For we were once ourselves also without intelligence, disobedient, wandering in error, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

W. Kelly Translation

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For at one time even we were foolish, disobedient, gonea astray, in slavery to divers lusts and pleasures, passing time in malice and envy, abominable, hating one another.

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Or, "led."