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Vivir como hijos de luz

17 Con la autoridad del Señor digo lo siguiente: ya no vivan como los que no conocen a Dios,[a] porque ellos están irremediablemente confundidos. 18 Tienen la mente llena de oscuridad; vagan lejos de la vida que Dios ofrece, porque cerraron la mente y endurecieron el corazón hacia él. 19 Han perdido la vergüenza. Viven para los placeres sensuales y practican con gusto toda clase de impureza.

20 Pero eso no es lo que ustedes aprendieron acerca de Cristo. 21 Ya que han oído sobre Jesús y han conocido la verdad que procede de él, 22 desháganse de su vieja naturaleza pecaminosa y de su antigua manera de vivir, que está corrompida por la sensualidad y el engaño.

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Footnotes

  1. 4:17 En griego los gentiles. (Gentil[es], que no es judío).

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) 18 They are darkened in their understanding(C) and separated from the life of God(D) because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardening of their hearts.(E) 19 Having lost all sensitivity,(F) they have given themselves over(G) to sensuality(H) so as to indulge in every kind of impurity, and they are full of greed.

20 That, however, is not the way of life you learned 21 when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. 22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off(I) your old self,(J) which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;(K)

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