^{17 Ref} This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind,

^{18 Ref} being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart;

^{19 Ref} who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

^{20 Ref} But ye did not so learn Christ;

^{21 Ref} if so be that ye heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:

^{22 Ref} that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

^{23 Ref} and that ye be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

^{24 Ref} and put on the new man, that after God hath been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

^{25 Ref} Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.