Ephesians 4:17-24 - Appeal For New Behavior

¹⁷ This then I tell you and implore you in the Master's name, to pass your lives no longer as the Gentiles do in the perverseness of their minds; ¹⁸ having their understanding darkened, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts. ¹⁹ These being past feeling have given themselves over to sensuality, in order to practise every form of impurity with greedy zest.

²⁰ But you have not so learned Christ, ²¹ if indeed you have listened to him, and in him been taught the truth as it is in Jesus. ²² You have learned to lay aside, with your former manner of living, the old self who was on his way to ruin, as he followed the desires which deceive; ²³ and to be made new in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴ and to put on the new self, created after God's likeness, in the uprightness and holiness of the truth.

¹² Therefore, as God's chosen people, consecrated and beloved, clothe yourselves with tenderness of heart, kindness, humility, gentleness, good temper; ¹³ bearing with one another and forgiving each other, if any one has a grievance against another. Just as Christ the Lord forgave you, so must you forgive. ¹⁴ Over them all bind on love, which is the girdle of completeness. ¹⁵ Let the peace of Christ, to which also you were called in one body, rule in your hearts, and show yourselves thankful. ¹⁶ Let the word of Christ have its home in you richly, in all wisdom. Teach and admonish one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, ever singing with grace in your hearts unto God. ¹⁷ And whatever you do, whether in word of in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God our Father through him.