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

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having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart;

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who, being past feeling, have given themselves over to lewdness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

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But you have not so learned Christ,

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if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus:

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that you put off, concerning your former conduct, the old man which grows corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,

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and be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

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and that you put on the new man which was created according to God, in true righteousness and holiness.

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Therefore, putting away lying, "Let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor," for we are members of one another.