Ephesians 4:17-24 - Appeal For New Behavior

¹⁷ This then I urge and testify in the Lord, that ye walk no more as the other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind, ¹⁸ darkened in understanding; alienated from the life of God through the ignorance which is in them; through the blindness of their hearts: ¹⁹ who insensible to remorse, have delivered themselves over in lasciviousness, to the practice of all impurity, with insatiable avidity.

²⁰ But ye have not so learned Christ; ²¹ if indeed ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: ²² that ye put off respecting your former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful passions; ²³ but be renewed in the spirit of your minds; ²⁴ and put on the new man, which is created godlike, in righteousness and true holiness.

¹² Put on therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bowels of mercies, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering; ¹³ forbearing one another, and freely forgiving one another, if any man hath a complaint against another: even as Christ hath freely forgiven you, so also do ye. ¹⁴ But above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfection. ¹⁵ And let the peace of God set up its throne in your hearts, whereunto also ye have been called in one body; and be ye thankful. ¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing with grace in your heart unto the Lord. ¹⁷ And everything that ye do in word or in work, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.