16 from whom the whole body is joined together and connected by every joint and ligament, as every part effectively does its work and grows, building itself up in love.
17 Therefore this I say and testify in the Lord, that from now on you walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their minds,
18 having their understanding darkened, excluded from the life of God through the ignorance that is within them, due to the hardness of their hearts.
19 Being calloused they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.
20 But you did not learn about Christ in this manner,
21 if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus:
22 that you put off the former way of life in the old nature, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,