Ephesians 4:17-24 - Appeal For New Behavior

¹⁷ This I say then and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the other gentiles walk, in the vanity of their minds, ¹⁸ with their understandings darkened, alienated from the life of God on account of the ignorance which is in them, on account of the hardness of their hearts, ¹⁹ who being without feeling have given themselves up to lewdness, to commit every impurity with greediness.

²⁰ But you have not so learned Christ, ²¹ if you have indeed heard him, and been instructed by him as the truth is in Jesus, ²² that you should lay aside your former mode of life the old man destroyed by deceitful desires, ²³ and be renewed in the spirit of your minds, ²⁴ and put on the new man, created after God in righteousness and true holiness.

¹² Put on, therefore, as elect and beloved saints of God, hearts of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering, ¹³ forbearing one another, and forgiving one another if any one has a charge against any, as Christ forgave you, so [do] you also, ¹⁴ and in addition to all these [put on] love, which is the bond of perfection. ¹⁵ And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, for which you have been called in one body; and be thankful. ¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, teaching with all wisdom, and admonishing one another, with psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to God, ¹⁷ and whatever you do in word or in work, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to the God [and] Father through him.