must no longer live as the heathen do in their perverseness (in the

folly, vanity, and emptiness of their souls and the futility) of their

minds.

Their moral understanding is darkened and their reasoning is clouded.

They are alienated from the life of God because of ignorance that is deep-

seated in them, due to their hardness of heart.

In their spiritual apathy they have become callous and past feeling and

reckless and have abandoned themselves as a prey to unbridled sensuality,

eager and greedy to indulge in every form of impurity that their depraved

desires may suggest and demand.

But you did not so learn Christ!

Assuming that you have really heard Him and been taught by Him, as all

Truth is in Jesus embodied and personified in Him,

Strip yourselves of your former nature which characterized your previous

manner of life and becomes corrupt through lusts and desires that spring

from delusion;

And be constantly renewed in the spirit of your mind,

And put on the new nature created in God’s image, in true righteousness

and holiness.

(Ephesians 4. 17-24).

AMEN!