Ephesians 4:17–32

¹⁷This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind, ¹⁸being darkened in the understanding, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their heart, ¹⁹who, having ceased to feel, themselves did give up to the lasciviousness, for the working of all uncleanness in greediness; ²⁰and ye did not so learn the Christ, ²¹if so be ye did hear him, and in him were taught, as truth is in Jesus; ²²ye are to put off concerning the former behaviour the old man, that is corrupt according to the desires of the deceit, ²³and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴and to put on the new man, which, according to God, was created in righteousness and kindness of the truth. ²⁵Wherefore, putting away the lying, speak truth each with his neighbour, because we are members one of another; ²⁶be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath, ²⁷neither give place to the devil; ²⁸whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need. ²⁹Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers; ³⁰and make not sorrowful the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye were sealed to a day of redemption. ³¹Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice, ³²and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

Chapter 5