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15 ci, credincioşi(A) adevărului, în dragoste, să(B) creştem în toate privinţele, ca să ajungem la Cel(C) ce este Capul, Hristos. 16 Din(D) El, tot trupul, bine închegat şi strâns legat prin ceea ce dă fiecare încheietură, îşi primeşte creşterea potrivit cu lucrarea fiecărei părţi în măsura ei şi se zideşte în dragoste. 17 Iată dar ce vă spun şi mărturisesc eu în Domnul: să(E) nu mai trăiţi cum trăiesc păgânii, în(F) deşertăciunea gândurilor lor,

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15 Instead, we will love each other and we will speak God's true message. As a result, we will become more and more like Christ in every way. He is the head of his body, which is the church. 16 As its head, he helps the whole body to grow well. Each part joins with the other parts so that the whole body becomes strong. As each separate part does its proper work, we love each other more and more.

Live in a way that pleases God

17 So I say this to you. I am sure that I have the Lord's authority to say it. You must not live any longer like the Gentile people who do not know God. They do whatever their silly ideas teach them to do.

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15 but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the (A)head—Christ— 16 (B)from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.

The New Man

17 This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should (C)no longer walk as [a]the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their mind,

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Footnotes

  1. Ephesians 4:17 NU omits the rest of

15 Instead, speaking the truth in love,(A) we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head,(B) that is, Christ. 16 From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows(C) and builds itself up(D) in love,(E) as each part does its work.

Instructions for Christian Living

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

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