^{17 Ref} This I say, then, and give witness in the Lord, that you are to go no longer in the way of the Gentiles whose minds are turned to that which has no profit,

^{18 Ref} Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;

^{19 Ref} Who having no more power of feeling, have given themselves up to evil passions, to do all unclean things with overmuch desire.

^{20 Ref} For this was not the teaching of Christ which was given to you;

^{21 Ref} If in fact you gave ear to him, and were given teaching in him, even as what is true is made clear in Jesus:

^{22 Ref} That you are to put away, in relation to your earlier way of life, the old man, which has become evil by love of deceit;