New American Standard Bible 1995

Ephesians 4:17-32

17 1So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, 2that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the 3futility of their mind, 18being 4darkened in their understanding, 5 6excluded from the life of God because of the 7ignorance that is in them, because of the 8hardness of their heart; 19and they, having 9become callous, 10have given themselves over to 11sensuality 12for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. 20But you did not 13learn 14Christ in this way, 21if indeed you 15have heard Him and have 16been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus, 22that, in reference to your former manner of life, you 17lay aside the 18old 19self, which is being corrupted in accordance with the 20lusts of deceit, 23and that you be 21renewed in the spirit of your mind, 24and 22put on the 23new 24self, which 25 26in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.

25Therefore, 27laying aside falsehood, 28speak truth each one of you with his neighbor, for we are 29members of one another. 26 30Be angry, and yet do not sin; do not let the sun go down on your anger, 27and do not 31give the devil 32an opportunity. 28He who steals must steal no longer; but rather 33he must labor, 34performing with his own hands what is good, 35so that he will have something to share with 36one who has need. 29Let no 37 38unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for 39edification 40according to the need of the moment, so that it will give grace to those who hear. 30 41Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, 42by whom you were 43sealed for the day of redemption. 31 44Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be 45put away from you, along with all 46malice. 32 47Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, 48just as God in Christ also has forgiven 49you.

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Notes

1. Ephesians 4:17 Col 2:4 ↩
2. Ephesians 4:17 Eph 2:2; 4:22 ↩
3. Ephesians 4:17 Rom 1:21; Col 2:18; 1 Pet 1:18; 2 Pet 2:18 ↩
4. Ephesians 4:18 Rom 1:21 ↩
5. Ephesians 4:18 Or alienated ↩
6. Ephesians 4:18 Eph 2:1, 12 ↩
7. Ephesians 4:18 Acts 3:17; 17:30; 1 Cor 2:8; Heb 5:2; 9:7; 1 Pet 1:14 ↩
8. Ephesians 4:18 Mark 3:5; Rom 11:7, 25; 2 Cor 3:14 ↩
9. Ephesians 4:19 1 Tim 4:2 ↩
10. Ephesians 4:19 Rom 1:24 ↩
11. Ephesians 4:19 Col 3:5 ↩
12. Ephesians 4:19 Or greedy for the practice of every kind of impurity ↩
13. Ephesians 4:20 Matt 11:29 ↩
14. Ephesians 4:20 I.e. the Messiah ↩
15. Ephesians 4:21 Rom 10:14; Eph 1:13; 2:17; Col 1:5 ↩
16. Ephesians 4:21 Col 2:7 ↩
17. Ephesians 4:22 Eph 4:25, 31; Col 3:8; Heb 12:1; James 1:21; 1 Pet 2:1 ↩
18. Ephesians 4:22 Rom 6:6 ↩
19. Ephesians 4:22 Lit man ↩
20. Ephesians 4:22 2 Cor 11:3; Heb 3:13 ↩
21. Ephesians 4:23 Rom 12:2 ↩
22. Ephesians 4:24 Rom 13:14 ↩
23. Ephesians 4:24 Rom 6:4; 7:6; 12:2; 2 Cor 5:17; Col 3:10 ↩
24. Ephesians 4:24 Lit man ↩
25. Ephesians 4:24 Lit according to God ↩
26. Ephesians 4:24 Eph 2:10 ↩
27. Ephesians 4:25 Eph 4:22, 31; Col 3:8; Heb 12:1; James 1:21; 1 Pet 2:1 ↩
28. Ephesians 4:25 Zech 8:16; Eph 4:15; Col 3:9 ↩
29. Ephesians 4:25 Rom 12:5 ↩
30. Ephesians 4:26 Ps 4:4 ↩
31. Ephesians 4:27 Rom 12:19; James 4:7 ↩
32. Ephesians 4:27 Lit a place ↩
33. Ephesians 4:28 Acts 20:35; 1 Cor 4:12; Gal 6:10 ↩
34. Ephesians 4:28 1 Thess 4:11; 2 Thess 3:8, 11f; Titus 3:8, 14 ↩
35. Ephesians 4:28 Luke 3:11; 1 Thess 4:12 ↩
36. Ephesians 4:28 Lit the one ↩
37. Ephesians 4:29 Lit rotten ↩
38. Ephesians 4:29 Matt 12:34; Eph 5:4; Col 3:8 ↩
39. Ephesians 4:29 Eccl 10:12; Rom 14:19; Col 4:6 ↩
40. Ephesians 4:29 Lit of the need ↩
41. Ephesians 4:30 Is 63:10; 1 Thess 5:19 ↩
42. Ephesians 4:30 Lit in ↩
43. Ephesians 4:30 John 3:33; Eph 1:13 ↩
44. Ephesians 4:31 Rom 3:14; Col 3:8, 19 ↩
45. Ephesians 4:31 Eph 4:22 ↩
46. Ephesians 4:31 1 Pet 2:1 ↩
47. Ephesians 4:32 1 Cor 13:4; Col 3:12f; 1 Pet 3:8 ↩
48. Ephesians 4:32 Matt 6:14f; 2 Cor 2:10 ↩
49. Ephesians 4:32 Two early mss read us ↩

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