28 Let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor, doing honest work with his hands, so that he may be able to give to those in need. 26 Be angry but do not sin do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27 and give no opportunity to the devil. Rules for the New LifeĢ5 Therefore, putting away falsehood, let every one speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members one of another. 22 Put off your old nature which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful lusts, 23 and be renewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and put on the new nature, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.

20 You did not so learn Christ!- 21 assuming that you have heard about him and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus. The Old Life and the Newġ7 Now this I affirm and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds 18 they are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart 19 they have become callous and have given themselves up to licentiousness, greedy to practice every kind of uncleanness. 15 Rather, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ, 16 from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by every joint with which it is supplied, when each part is working properly, makes bodily growth and upbuilds itself in love. “When he ascended on high he led a host of captives,ĩ (In saying, “He ascended,” what does it mean but that he had also descended into the lower parts of the earth? 10 He who descended is he who also ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.) 11 And his gifts were that some should be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, some pastors and teachers, 12 to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, 13 until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ 14 so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the cunning of men, by their craftiness in deceitful wiles.

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