Therefore I, the prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk worthy of the calling you have received,

Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their thoughts.

Therefore, be imitators of God, as dearly loved children.

Therefore, do not become their partners.

for what makes everything clear is light. Therefore it is said:

Get up, sleeper, and rise up from the dead,
and the Messiah will shine on you.

Stand, therefore,

with truth like a belt around your waist,
righteousness like armor on your chest,