16. from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love.
17. Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.
18. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, due to their hardness of heart.