mnt - Ephesians:4:17-5:21

mnt@Ephesians:4:17 @ This then I tell you and implore you in the Masters name, to pass your lives no longer as the Gentiles do in the perverseness of their minds;

mnt@Ephesians:4:18 @ having their understanding darkened, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

mnt@Ephesians:4:19 @ These being past feeling have given themselves over to sensuality, in order to practise every form of impurity with greedy zest.

mnt@Ephesians:4:20 @ But you have not so learned Christ,

mnt@Ephesians:4:21 @ if indeed you have listened to him, and in him been taught the truth as it is in Jesus.

mnt@Ephesians:4:22 @ You have learned to lay aside, with your former manner of living, the old self who was on his way to ruin, as he followed the desires which deceive;

mnt@Ephesians:4:23 @ and to be made new in the spirit of your mind,

mnt@Ephesians:4:24 @ and to put on the new self, created after Gods likeness, in the uprightness and holiness of the truth.

mnt@Ephesians:4:25 @ So then put away falseness and speak every man the truth to his neighbor, for we are members one of another.

mnt@Ephesians:4:26 @ "Be angry and sin not"; let not the sun go down upon your anger.

mnt@Ephesians:4:27 @ Give the devil no place.

mnt@Ephesians:4:28 @ Let him who stole steal no more, but let him work, and in honest industry toil with his hands, so that he may have something to give to the needy.

mnt@Ephesians:4:29 @ From your lips let no evil words come forth, but such as occasion warrants, such as are good for upbuilding and give a blessing to the hearers.

mnt@Ephesians:4:30 @ And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you have been sealed for the day of redemption.

mnt@Ephesians:4:31 @ Banish from among you all bitterness and passion and anger and clamor and slander, as well as all malice;

mnt@Ephesians:4:32 @ and be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ has forgiven you.

mnt@Ephesians:5:1 @ Learn then to imitate God as his beloved children,

mnt@Ephesians:5:2 @ and to lead lives of love, just as Christ also loved you and gave himself up for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for you, an offering and sacrifice unto God, for "an odor of sweetness."

mnt@Ephesians:5:3 @ As for sexual vice and every kind of impurity or lust, it is unbecoming for you as Christians even to mention them;

mnt@Ephesians:5:4 @ so too with vulgarity and buffoonery and foolish jesting. Such words become you not, but rather thanksgiving.

mnt@Ephesians:5:5 @ For be well assured that no one guilty of fornication or impurity or covetousness which is idolatry, has any heritage in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

mnt@Ephesians:5:6 @ Let no man deceive you with empty arguments, for it is these vices that bring down the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience;

mnt@Ephesians:5:7 @ therefore do not become sharers with them.

mnt@Ephesians:5:8 @ For you were once darkness, but are now in the Lord.

mnt@Ephesians:5:9 @ Lead the life of children of light, for the fruit of the light consists in every kind of goodness and uprightness and truth.

mnt@Ephesians:5:10 @ Examine carefully what is well pleasing to the Lord,

mnt@Ephesians:5:11 @ and have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of the darkness, but rather expose them.

mnt@Ephesians:5:12 @ For it is a shame even to speak of the things that are done by such men in secret;

mnt@Ephesians:5:13 @ but all these things, when exposed, are by the light made manifest, and what is made manifest is light.

mnt@Ephesians:5:14 @ For this reason it is said, "Awake, thou sleeper! Arise from the dead; And Christ shall shine upon thee!"

mnt@Ephesians:5:15 @ See to it, then, that you carry on your life carefully; not as foolish, but as wise men.

mnt@Ephesians:5:16 @ Buy up opportunity, for the times are evil.

mnt@Ephesians:5:17 @ For this reason do not be thoughtless, but learn to know what the Lords will is.

mnt@Ephesians:5:18 @ Do not be drunk with wine, in which is riotous living, but drink deep in the Spirit,

mnt@Ephesians:5:19 @ when you talk together; with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and with all your hearts making music unto the Lord;

mnt@Ephesians:5:20 @ and at all times for all things give thanks to God, the Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

mnt@Ephesians:5:21 @ Submit yourselves one to another out of reverence for Christ.