² so as to live for the rest of your time in the flesh no longer by human desires but by the will of God.^(A)

²² to put away your former way of life, your old self, corrupt and deluded by its lusts,^{(A) 23} and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, ²⁴ and to clothe yourselves with the new self, created according to the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.^(B)

³ For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, passing our days in malice and envy, despicable, hating one another.^{(A) 4} But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared,^{(B) 5} he saved us, not because of any works of righteousness that we had done, but according to his mercy, through the water^[a] of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit.^{(C) 6} This Spirit he poured out on us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, ⁷ so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.^{(D) 8} The saying is sure.

I desire that you insist on these things, so that those who have come to believe in God may be careful to devote themselves to good works; these things are excellent and profitable to everyone.^(E)

¹⁵ And he died for all, so that those who live might live no longer for themselves but for the one who for their sake died and was raised.

¹¹ So you also must consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.^(A)

⁶ not with a slavery performed merely for looks, to please people, but as slaves of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul.

³ All of us once lived among them in the passions of our flesh, doing the will of flesh and senses, and we were by nature children of wrath, like everyone else,^(A)

² By no means! How can we who died to sin go on living in it?^(A)

¹⁴ Like obedient children, do not be conformed to the desires that you formerly had in ignorance.