²⁴ Brothers and sisters, each person, as responsible to God, should remain in the situation they were in when God called them.^(A)

³¹ those who use the things of the world, as if not engrossed in them. For this world in its present form is passing away.^(A)

² Do not conform^(A) to the pattern of this world,^(B) but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.^(C) Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is^(D)—his good, pleasing^(E) and perfect will.

³ For you have spent enough time in the past^(A) doing what pagans choose to do—living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing and detestable idolatry.^(B)

Instructions for Christian Living

¹⁷ So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer^(A) live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.^(B)

²⁴ and to put on^(A) the new self,^(B) created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.^(C)