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Darkened understanding or learning Christ
- This then I say, and bear witness in the Lord
that no-longer you should walk in the way the Gentiles walk
in the futility of their minds
- darkened in their understanding
alienated from the life of God
because of the ignorance that is in them
because of the hardness of their heart
- who have become callous
giving themselves over to indecency
for the practice of every kind of impurity in greediness
- but you have not so learned Christ
- in as much as you heard
and in him you were taught
even as the truth is in Jesus
Old and New Creation
- to put off according to your previous way of life, the old man
which is being corrupted according to deceitful desires
- to be renewed in the spirit of your minds
- and to put on the new man
created according to God in righteousness and true holiness.
Walking in Love
- Therefore having put off falsehood
let each one of you speak the truth with his neighbour,
for we are members one of another.
- Be angry and do not sin;
do not let the sun go down on your anger
- Do not give an opportunity to the devil.
- Let the stealer steal no longer;
rather let him labour, doing honest work with his own hands
that he may have something to share with anyone in need
- Let no corrupting talk leave your mouths,
but only what is good for building up the person who needs it,
that it may give grace to those who hear.
- And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God,
in whom you were sealed
for the day of redemption.
- Let all bitterness and rage and anger and shouting and slander be put away from you, along with all malice.
- Become kind to one another, tenderhearted, showing grace to one another,
just as God in Christ showed grace to you
- Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children.
- And walk in love, just as Christ loved us
and gave himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for a fragrant aroma.