Ephesians 4:17-24 - Appeal For New Behavior

¹⁷ This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should not walk from now on as other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind, ¹⁸ having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart. ¹⁹ For they, being past feeling, have given themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

²⁰ But you have not so learned Christ, ²¹ if indeed you have heard Him and were taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus. ²² For you ought to put off the old man (according to your way of living before) who is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts, ²³ and be renewed in the spirit of your mind. ²⁴ And you should put on the new man, who according to God was created in righteousness and true holiness.

¹² Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on tender feelings of mercy, kindness, humbleness of mind, meekness, long-suffering, ¹³ forbearing one another and forgiving yourselves, if anyone has a complaint against any. As Christ forgave you, so also you do. ¹⁴ And above all these things put on love, which is the bond of perfectness. ¹⁵ And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which you also are called in one body, and be thankful. ¹⁶ Let the Word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord. ¹⁷ And everything, whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God and the Father by Him.