15. But practicing the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ, who is the head.
16. From him the whole body grows, fitted and held together through every supporting ligament. As each one does its part, the body grows in love.
17. So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.
18. They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
19. Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.
20. But you did not learn about Christ like this,
21. if indeed you heard about him and were taught in him, just as the truth is in Jesus.
22. You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires,
23. to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,