Well, then, we by our baptism were buried with Him in death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from among the dead by the Father's glorious power, we also should live an entirely new life.

And do not follow the customs of the present age, but be transformed by the entire renewal of your minds, so that you may learn by experience what God's will is--that will which is good and beautiful and perfect.

with darkened understandings, having by reason of the ignorance which is deep-seated in them and the insensibility of their moral nature, no share in the Life which God gives.

Therefore put to death your earthward inclinations--fornication, impurity, sensual passion, unholy desire, and all greed, for that is a form of idolatry.

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Those times of ignorance God viewed with indulgence. But now He commands all men everywhere to repent,

that you be not overmastered by lustful cravings, like the Gentiles who have no knowledge of God;

For there was a time when we also were deficient in understanding, obstinate, deluded, the slaves of various cravings and pleasures, spending our lives in malice and envy, hateful ourselves and hating one another.

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In piety and uprightness before Him all our days.

I tell you in solemn truth that, whoever does not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child will certainly not enter it."