Ephesians:4:17-5

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* 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 ; * having their understanding darkened , alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them , because of the hardening of their hearts . * These being past feeling have given themselves over to sensuality , in order to practise every form of impurity with greedy zest . * But you have not so learned Christ , * if indeed you have listened to him , and in him been taught the truth as it is in Jesus . * 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 ; * and to be made new in the spirit of your mind , * and to put on the new self , created after Gods likeness , in the uprightness and holiness of the truth . * So then put away falseness and speak every man the truth to his neighbor , for we are members one of another . * "Be angry and sin not "; let not the sun go down upon your anger . * Give the devil no place . * 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 . * 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 . * And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God , in whom you have been sealed for the day of redemption . * Banish from among you all bitterness and passion and anger and clamor and slander , as well as all malice ; * and be kind to one another , tender-hearted , forgiving one another , even as God in Christ has forgiven you .

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