Ephesians 4:17-24 - Appeal For New Behavior

¹⁷ Therefore this I say, and testify in the Lord, that ye no more walk as also the rest of the nations, in the vanity of their mind, ¹⁸ Being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God by ignorance being in them, by the hardness of their heart; ¹⁹ Who no longer having had feeling delivered themselves to licentiousness, to the work of all uncleanness in overreaching.

²⁰ And ye have not so learned Christ; ²¹ If ye heard him, and were taught in him, as is the truth in Jesus: ²² For you to put away according to the former mode of life the old man, corrupted according to the eager desires of deceit; ²³ And to be renewed in the spirit of your mind; ²⁴ And to put on the new man, created according to God in justice and sanctity of truth.

¹² Put on therefore, as the chosen of God, holy and beloved, bowels of compassions, kindnesses, humility, meekness, longsuffering; ¹³ (Bearing one another, propitiating one another, if any have a complaint against any: as also Christ propitiated for you, so also ye.) ¹⁴ And over all these, love, which is the bond of completion. ¹⁵ And let the peace of God act as umpire in your hearts, to which also, ye were called in one body: and be grateful. ¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in, you richly; teaching and reminding one another in all wisdom, playing with harps, and songs, and spiritual odes, with grace singing in your hearts to the Lord. ¹⁷ And all whatever you do in word and in work, all things in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.