¹⁷This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind,

 ¹⁸Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart:

 ¹⁹Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

 ²⁰But ye have not so learned Christ;

 ²¹If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:

 ²²That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;

 ²³And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

 ²⁴And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

 ²⁵Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbour: for we are members one of another.

 ²⁶Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

 ²⁷Neither give place to the devil.

 ²⁸Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

 ²⁹Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

 ³⁰And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

 ³¹Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

 ³²And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you.