¹⁷This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should ^vno longer walk as ⁶the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind, ¹⁸having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the ^wblindness of their heart; ¹⁹^xwho, being past feeling, ^yhave given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

²⁰But you have not so learned Christ, ²¹if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus: ²²that you ^zput off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, ²³and ^abe renewed in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴and that you ^bput on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

Do Not Grieve the Spirit

²⁵Therefore, putting away lying, ^c“Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor,” for ^dwe are members of one another. ²⁶^e“Be angry, and do not sin”: do not let the sun go down on your wrath, ²⁷^fnor give ⁷place to the devil. ²⁸Let him who stole steal no longer, but rather ^glet him labor, working with his hands what is good, that he may have something ^hto give him who has need.

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Footnotes

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Cross references

v Eph. 2:2; 4:22
w Rom. 1:21
x 1 Tim. 4:2
y 1 Pet. 4:3
z Col. 3:8
a[Rom. 12:2; Col. 3:10]
b[Rom. 6:4; 7:6; 12:2; 2 Cor. 5:17; Col. 3:10]
c Zech. 8:16; Eph. 4:15; Col. 3:9
d Rom. 12:5
e Ps. 4:4; 37:8
f[Rom. 12:19; James 4:7]; 1 Pet. 5:9
g Acts 20:35; 1 Cor. 4:12; Gal. 6:10
h Luke 3:11; 1 Thess. 4:12