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17 Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.
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So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.
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They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.
19 They have become callous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity.
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Having lost all sensitivity, they have given themselves over to sensuality so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed.
20 But that is not the way you learned Christ!--
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That, however, is not the way of life you learned
21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus,
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when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus.
22 to put off your old self, which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires,
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You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
23 and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,
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to be made new in the attitude of your minds;
24 and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.
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and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
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