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,
24. and to put on the new man who has been created in God’s image – in righteousness and holiness that comes from truth.
25. Therefore, having laid aside falsehood, each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.
26. Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun go down on the cause of your anger.
27. Do not give the devil an opportunity.