Ephesians 4:13–24

¹³until we all arrive at the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, at the full-grown man, at the measure of the stature of the fulness of the Christ; ¹⁴in order that we may be no longer babes, tossed and carried about by every wind of that teaching which is in the sleight of men, in unprincipled cunning with a view to systematized error; ¹⁵but, holding the truth in love, we may grow up to him in all things, who is the head, the Christ: ¹⁶from whom the whole body, fitted together, and connected by every joint of supply, according to the working in its measure of each one part, works for itself the increase of the body to its self-building up in love.

¹⁷This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye should no longer walk as the rest of the nations walk in the vanity of their mind, ¹⁸being darkened in understanding, estranged from the life of God by reason of the ignorance which is in them, by reason of the hardness of their hearts, ¹⁹who having cast off all feeling, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greedy unsatisfied lust. ²⁰But ye have not thus learnt the Christ, ²¹if ye have heard him and been instructed in him according as the truth is in Jesus; ²²namely your having put off according to the former conversation the old man which corrupts itself according to the deceitful lusts; ²³and being renewed in the spirit of your mind; ²⁴and your having put on the new man, which according to God is created in truthful righteousness and holiness.