and through your faith to let Christ in his love make his home in your hearts. Your roots must be deep and your foundations strong,

We must not be babies any longer, blown about and swung around by every wind of doctrine through the trickery of men with their ingenuity in inventing error.

We must lovingly hold to the truth and grow up into perfect union with him who is the head??hrist himself.

So what I mean and insist upon in the Lord's name is this: You must no longer live like the heathen, with their frivolity of mind and darkened understanding.

You must lay aside with your former habits your old self which is going to ruin through its deceptive passions.

You must adopt a new attitude of mind,

So you must lay aside falsehood and each tell his neighbor the truth, for we are parts of one another.

Be angry, but do not sin. The sun must not go down upon your anger;

you must not give the devil a chance.

The man who stole must not steal any more; he must work with his hands at honest toil instead, so as to have something to share with those who are in need.

No bad word must ever pass your lips, but only words that are good and suited to improve the occasion, so that they will be a blessing to those who hear them.

You must not offend God's holy Spirit, with which you have been marked for the Day of Redemption.

You must give up all bitterness, rage, anger, and loud, abusive talk, and all spite.

You must be kind to one another, you must be tender-hearted, and forgive one another just as God through Christ has forgiven you.

But immorality or any form of vice or greed must not be so much as mentioned among you; that would not be becoming in God's people.

There must be no indecency or foolish or scurrilous talk??ll that is unbecoming. There should be thanksgiving instead.

For once you were sheer darkness, but now, as Christians, you are light itself. You must live like children of light,

you must make sure what pleases the Lord.

You married women must subordinate yourselves to your husbands, as you do to the Lord,

Just as the church is in subjection to Christ, so married women must be, in everything, to their husbands.

You who are husbands must love your wives, just as Christ loves the church and gave himself for her,

Therefore a man must leave his father and mother and attach himself to his wife, and they must become one.

But each one of you must love his wife just as he loves himself, and the wife, too, must respect her husband.

"You must honor your father and mother"??hat is the first commandment accompanied with a promise??3 "so that you may prosper and have a long life on earth."

You fathers, too, must not irritate your children, but you must bring them up with Christian training and instruction.

You who are masters, too, must treat your slaves in the same way, and cease to threaten them, for you know that their Master and yours is in heaven, and that he will show no partiality.

Henceforth you must grow strong through union with the Lord and through his mighty strength.

You must put on God's armor, so as to be able to stand up against the devil's stratagems.

So you must take God's armor, so that when the evil day comes you will be able to make a stand, and when it is all over to hold your ground.