Put Off the Old Self and Walk as Children of Light

Ephesians 4

4:17This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

4:18being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts.

4:19They, having become callous, gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

4:20But you didn’t learn Christ that way,

4:21if indeed you heard him and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:

4:22that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

4:23and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

4:24and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

4:25Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak truth each one with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.

4:26“Be angry, and don’t sin.” Don’t let the sun go down on your wrath,

4:27and don’t give place to the devil.

4:28Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

4:29Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but only what is good for building others up as the need may be, that it may give grace to those who hear.

4:30Don’t grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

4:31Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander be put away from you, with all malice.

4:32And be kind to one another, tender hearted, forgiving each other, just as God also in Christ forgave you.

Ephesians 5

5:1Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children.

5:2Walk in love, even as Christ also loved us and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling fragrance.

5:3But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness or covetousness, let it not even be mentioned among you, as becomes saints;

5:4nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not appropriate, but rather giving of thanks.

5:5Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man (who is an idolater), has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.

5:6Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

5:7Therefore don’t be partakers with them.

5:8For you were once darkness, but are now light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

5:9for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,

5:10proving what is well pleasing to the Lord.

5:11Have no fellowship with the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even reprove them.

5:12For it is a shame even to speak of the things which are done by them in secret.

5:13But all things, when they are reproved, are revealed by the light, for everything that reveals is light.

5:14Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”

5:15Therefore watch carefully how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

5:16redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

5:17Therefore, don’t be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

5:18Don’t be drunken with wine, in which is dissipation, but be filled with the Spirit,

5:19speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs; singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

5:20giving thanks always concerning all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ to God, even the Father;

5:21subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of Christ.