Ephesians 4:17-24 - Appeal For New Behavior

¹⁷ This, therefore, I say, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind, ¹⁸ being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardness of their hearts; ¹⁹ who, indeed, having become without feeling, delivered themselves up to lasciviousness for the working of all uncleanness with greediness.

²⁰ But ye did not so learn Christ; ²¹ if, indeed, ye heard Him, and were taught in Him, as truth is in Jesus; ²² that ye put off, as to your former manner of life, the old man, who is corrupt according to the desires of deceit; ²³ and that ye be renewed in the spirit of your mind, ²⁴ and put on the new man, who after God was created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.

¹² Put on, therefore, as God's elect, holy and beloved, tender affections of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering; ¹³ (bearing with one another, and freely forgiving one another, if any one have a complaint against any; even as the Lord freely forgave you, so also do ye): ¹⁴ and over all these put on love, which is the uniting-bond of perfectness. ¹⁵ And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, unto which also ye were called in one body; and become thankful. ¹⁶ Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts, to God. ¹⁷ And whatsoever ye do in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.