Old Sins Require Patience
Ephesians 5:12
For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.


I feel grieved when I hear or read of people who can stand up and talk about what they used to do before they were converted very much in the way in which an old seafaring man talks of his voyages and storms. No, no; be ashamed of your former lusts in your ignorance, and if you must speak of them to the praise and glory of Christ, speak with bated breath and tears and sighs. Death, rottenness, corruption, are all most fitly left in silence, or, if they demand a voice, let it be as solemn and mournful as a knell.

(C. H. Spurgeon.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

WEB: For the things which are done by them in secret, it is a shame even to speak of.




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