Now surely this 'going up' must imply that he had already gone down into the world beneath.

For you learned with regard to your former way of living that you must cast off your old nature, which, yielding to deluding passions, grows corrupt;

That the very spirit of your minds must be constantly renewed;

And that you must clothe yourselves in that new nature which was created to resemble God, with the righteousness and holiness springing from the Truth.

Since, therefore, you have cast off what is false, 'you must every one of you speak the truth to your neighbors.' For we are united to one another like the parts of a body.

Making the most of every opportunity; for these are evil days.

So that thou mayest prosper and have a long life on earth.'