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)

²² You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off^(A) your old self,^(B) which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;^(C)

⁸ For you were once^(A) darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Live as children of light^(B)

⁷ You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived.^(A)

³⁰ Just as you who were at one time disobedient^(A) to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience,

¹¹ And that is what some of you were.^(A) But you were washed,^(B) you were sanctified,^(C) you were justified^(D) in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.