16. For in him, the whole body is joined closely together, by every underlying joint, through the function allotted to each part, bringing improvement to the body, toward its edification in charity.
17. And so, I say this, and I testify in the Lord: that from now on you should walk, not as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind,
18. having their intellect obscured, being alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is within them, because of the blindness of their hearts.
19. Such as these, despairing, have given themselves over to sexual immorality, carrying out every impurity with rapacity.
20. But this is not what you have learned in Christ.
21. For certainly, you have listened to him, and you have been instructed in him, according to the truth that is in Jesus:
22. to set aside your earlier behavior, the former man, who was corrupted, by means of desire, unto error,
23. and so be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
24. and so put on the new man, who, in accord with God, is created in justice and in the holiness of truth.