Ephesians 4:17-32

Darby Translation

¹⁷ This I say therefore, and testify in [the] Lord, that ye should no longer walk as [the rest of] the nations walk in [the] vanity of their mind,

¹⁸ being darkened in understanding, estranged from the life of God by reason of the ignorance which is in them, by reason of the hardness of their hearts,

¹⁹ who having cast off all feeling, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greedy unsatisfied lust.

²⁰ But *ye* have not thus learnt the Christ,

²¹ if ye have heard him and been instructed in him according as [the] truth is in Jesus;

²² [namely] your having put off according to the former conversation the old man which corrupts itself according to the deceitful lusts;

²³ and being renewed in the spirit of your mind;

²⁴ and [your] having put on the new man, which according to God is created in truthful righteousness and holiness.

²⁵ Wherefore, having put off falsehood, speak truth every one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another.

²⁶ Be angry, and do not sin; let not the sun set upon your wrath,

²⁷ neither give room for the devil.

²⁸ Let the stealer steal no more, but rather let him toil, working what is honest with [his] hands, that he may have to distribute to him that has need.

²⁹ Let no corrupt word go out of your mouth, but if [there be] any good one for needful edification, that it may give grace to those that hear [it].

³⁰ And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which ye have been sealed for [the] day of redemption.

³¹ Let all bitterness, and heat of passion, and wrath, and clamour, and injurious language, be removed from you, with all malice;

³² and be to one another kind, compassionate, forgiving one another, so as God also in Christ has forgiven you.