13 This will continue until we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of Ben-Elohim—to mature adulthood, to the measure of the stature of Messiah’s fullness.
14 As a result, we are no longer to be like children, tossed around by the waves and blown all over by every wind of teaching, by the trickery of men with cunning in deceitful scheming.
15 Instead, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all ways into Messiah, who is the Head.
16 From Him the whole body is fitted and held together by every supporting ligament. The proper working of each individual part produces the body’s growth, for building itself up in love.
17 So I tell you this, indeed I insist on it in the Lord—walk no longer as the pagans do, stumbling around in the futility of their thinking.
18 They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance in them due to the hardness of their heart.
19 Since they are past feeling, they have turned themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of immorality, with greed for more.