¹⁷Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thoughts. ¹⁸They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them and because^C of the hardness of their hearts. ¹⁹They became callous and gave themselves over to promiscuity for the practice of every kind of impurity^t with a desire for more and more.^D

²⁰But that is not how you came to know Christ, ²¹assuming you heard about him and were taught by him, as the truth^u is in Jesus, ²²to take off^E^v your former way of life,^w the old self^x that is corrupted by deceitful desires, ²³to be renewed^F in the spirit^y of your minds, ²⁴and to put on^G^z the new self, the one created^aa according to God’s likeness^ab in righteousness and purity of the truth.

²⁵Therefore, putting away^ac lying, speak the truth, each one to his neighbor,^H^ad because we are members of one another. ²⁶Be angry and do not sin.^I^ae Don’t let the sun go down on your anger, ²⁷and don’t give the devil an opportunity. ²⁸Let the thief no longer steal. Instead, he is to do honest work with his own hands, so that he has something to share^af with anyone in need.

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Footnotes

COr in them because
D with greediness
EOr Jesus. This means: take off (as a command)
FOr desires; renew (as a command)
GOr minds; and put on (as a command)

Cross references

t 1Th 4:7
u 2Th 2:10
v Rm 13:12
w 2Pt 3:11
x Rm 6:6; 7:6; 1Co 5:7–8; 2Co 3:14; Col 3:9
y Ps 51:12
z Rm 13:12
aa Mk 13:19; Jn 1:3; Rv 3:14
ab Col 3:10; 2Pt 1:4
ac Pr 31:25
H Zch 8:16
ad Zch 8:16
I Ps 4:4
ae Ps 4:4; 37:8; Mt 18:21; Jms 1:19–20
af 1Th 2:8; 1Tm 6:18