15. Rather, living the truth in love, we should grow in every way into him who is the head, Christ,
16. from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, with the proper functioning of each part, brings about the body’s growth and builds itself up in love.
17. So I declare and testify in the Lord that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds;
18. darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance, because of their hardness of heart,
19. they have become callous and have handed themselves over to licentiousness for the practice of every kind of impurity to excess.
20. That is not how you learned Christ,