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This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind,

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being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart

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who being past feeling gave themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

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But ye did not so learn Christ

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if so be that ye heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:

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that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit

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and that ye be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

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and put on the new man, that after God hath been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

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Wherefore, putting away falsehood, speak ye truth each one with his neighbor: for we are members one of another.

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Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

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neither give place to the devil.

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Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have whereof to give to him that hath need.

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Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but such as is good for edifying as the need may be, that it may give grace to them that hear.

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And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in whom ye were sealed unto the day of redemption.

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Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and railing, be put away from you, with all malice:

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and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.