Or, as many of the other translations put it, God sovereignly established you in Christ.

The original Greek word is one you already know: ethnos, and it's often translated throughout the New

This is one of those words so rich in meaning that there's more than one way to translate into English

It often gets translated as persecute to describe the way people chased down Christians.

Paul describes such people as having minds made dull (other translations: their minds are hardened /

The NIV translates the next phrase well: having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over

Other translations render that final word as mat, which isn't all bad, but the pallet was likely a bit

Not only that, but you carry around every translation of scripture ever produced - and even the original

Here's how one Hebrew dictionary defines their word often translated as heart.

Most of the modern English Bible translations don't include this phrase with the rest of the prayer in