The Way You Should Live

¹⁷ ·In the Lord’s name [or By the Lord’s authority; ^LIn the Lord], I ·tell you [^Lspeak and testify to] this. Do not continue ·living [walking] like ·those who do not believe [the pagans; ^Lthe Gentiles], whose thoughts are ·worth nothing [futile]. ¹⁸ They ·do not understand [^Lare darkened in their minds/understanding] and they are ·separated [excluded; alienated] from the life ·God gives [or God has; ^Lof God] because of their ignorance ·and because of [or caused by] ·their stubbornness [or their closed minds; ^Lthe stubbornness of their heart/mind]. ¹⁹ They have lost ·all feeling of shame [or any sense of right and wrong; ^Lall feeling/sensitivity], and they ·use their lives for doing evil [abandon themselves to indecency/depravity]. They ·continually want to do [or greedily pursue] all kinds of ·evil [impurity].