Ephesians 4:17-5:20

Darby Translation

¹⁷This I say therefore, and testify in [the] Lord, that ye should no longer walk as [the rest of] the nations walk in [the] vanity of their mind,

¹⁸being darkened in understanding, estranged from the life of God by reason of the ignorance which is in them, by reason of the hardness of their hearts,

¹⁹who having cast off all feeling, have given themselves up to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greedy unsatisfied lust.

²⁰But *ye* have not thus learnt the Christ,

²¹if ye have heard him and been instructed in him according as [the] truth is in Jesus;

²²[namely] your having put off according to the former conversation the old man which corrupts itself according to the deceitful lusts;

²³and being renewed in the spirit of your mind;

²⁴and [your] having put on the new man, which according to God is created in truthful righteousness and holiness.

²⁵Wherefore, having put off falsehood, speak truth every one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another.

²⁶Be angry, and do not sin; let not the sun set upon your wrath,

²⁷neither give room for the devil.

²⁸Let the stealer steal no more, but rather let him toil, working what is honest with [his] hands, that he may have to distribute to him that has need.

²⁹Let no corrupt word go out of your mouth, but if [there be] any good one for needful edification, that it may give grace to those that hear [it].

³⁰And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which ye have been sealed for [the] day of redemption.

³¹Let all bitterness, and heat of passion, and wrath, and clamour, and injurious language, be removed from you, with all malice;

³²and be to one another kind, compassionate, forgiving one another, so as God also in Christ has forgiven you.

5 Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children,

²and walk in love, even as the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour.

³But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints;

⁴and filthiness and foolish talking, or jesting, which are not convenient; but rather thanksgiving.

⁵For this ye are [well] informed of, knowing that no fornicator, or unclean person, or person of unbridled lust, who is an idolater, has inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.

⁶Let no one deceive you with vain words, for on account of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

⁷Be not ye therefore fellow-partakers with them;

⁸for ye were once darkness, but now light in [the] Lord; walk as children of light,

⁹(for the fruit of the light [is] in all goodness and righteousness and truth,)

¹⁰proving what is agreeable to the Lord;

¹¹and do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather also reprove [them],

¹²for the things that are done by them in secret it is shameful even to say.

¹³But all things having their true character exposed by the light are made manifest; for that which makes everything manifest is light.

¹⁴Wherefore he says, Wake up, [thou] that sleepest, and arise up from among the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.

¹⁵See therefore how ye walk carefully, not as unwise but as wise,

¹⁶redeeming the time, because the days are evil.

¹⁷For this reason be not foolish, but understanding what [is] the will of the Lord.