Ephesians 4:17–28

The New Life

¹⁷Now this I say and ^dtestify in the Lord, ^ethat you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, ^fin the futility of their minds. ¹⁸They ^gare darkened in their understanding, ^halienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to ⁱtheir hardness of heart. ¹⁹They ^jhave become callous and ^khave given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. ²⁰But that is not the way you ^llearned Christ!— ²¹assuming that ^myou have heard about him and ⁿwere taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, ²²to ^oput off ^pyour old self,⁶ which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through ^qdeceitful desires, ²³and ^rto be renewed in the spirit of your minds, ²⁴and to put on ^sthe new self, ^tcreated after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

²⁵Therefore, having put away falsehood, let each one of you ^uspeak the truth with his neighbor, for ^vwe are members one of another. ^26wBe angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, ²⁷and ^xgive no opportunity to the devil. ²⁸Let the thief no longer steal, but rather ^ylet him labor, ^zdoing honest work with his own hands, so ^athat he may have something to share with anyone in need.