THE LIFE OF GOD
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This I say and solemnly testify in the Lord,
that you must no longer live as the heathen
do in their perverseness of their minds.
Their moral understanding is darkened
and their reasoning is beclouded.
They are alienated from the life of God
because of the 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 to unbridled
sensuality, eager and greedy to indulge
in every form of impurity.
But you did not so learn Christ!
Assuming that you have really heard Him
and been taught by Him, as Truth is in Jesus.
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.
Therefore, rejecting all falsity and being done
now with it, let everyone express the truth
wit his neighbor, for we are all parts of one
body and members of one another.
When angry, do not sin; do not ever let your
wrath last until the sun goes down.
Leave no room or foothold for the devil.
Let the thief steal no more, but rather let
him be industrious, making an honest
living with his own hands, so that he may
be able to give to those in need.
Let no foul or polluting language, nor evil
word nor unwholesome or worthless talk
ever come out of your mouth, but only such
speech as is good and beneficial to the spiritual
progress of others, as is fitting to the need and
the occasion, that it may be a blessing and give
God’s favor to those who hear it.
And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God by Whom
you were sealed for the day of redemption.
Let all bitterness and indignation and wrath and
resentment and quarreling and slander be
banished from you, with all malice.
And become useful and helpful and kind to
one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one
another, as God in Christ forgave you.
(Ephesians 4.17-32).
HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU LORD JESUS FOREVERMORE!