moral nature, no share in the Life which God gives.
004:019 Such men being past feeling have abandoned themselves to impurity,
greedily indulging in every kind of profligacy.
004:020 But these are not the lessons which you have learned from Christ;
004:021 if at least you have heard His voice and in Him have been taught--
and this is true Christian teaching--
004:022 to put away, in regard to your former mode of life,
your original evil nature which is doomed to perish as befits
its misleading impulses,
004:023 and to get yourselves renewed in the temper of your minds
and clothe yourselves
004:024 with that new and better self which has been created to resemble
God in the righteousness and holiness which come from the truth.
004:025 For this reason, laying aside falsehood, every one of you should
speak the truth to his fellow man; for we are, as it were,
parts of one another.
004:026 If angry, beware of sinning. Let not your irritation last until
the sun goes down;
004:027 and do not leave room for the Devil.
004:028 He who has been a thief must steal no more, but, instead of that,
should work with his own hands in honest industry, so that
he may have something of which he can give the needy a share.
004:029 Let no unwholesome words ever pass your lips, but let all your
words be good for benefiting others according to the need
of the moment, so that they may be a means of blessing
to the hearers.
004:030 And beware of grieving the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you
have been sealed in preparation for the day of Redemption.
004:031 Let all bitterness and all passionate feeling, all anger
and loud insulting language, be unknown among you--