13. until we all attain to the unity of faith and knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the extent of the full stature of Christ,
14. so that we may no longer be infants, tossed by waves and swept along by every wind of teaching arising from human trickery, from their cunning in the interests of deceitful scheming.
15. Rather, living the truth in love, we should grow in every way into him who is the head, Christ,
16. from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, with the proper functioning of each part, brings about the body’s growth and builds itself up in love.
17. So I declare and testify in the Lord that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds;
18. darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God because of their ignorance, because of their hardness of heart,
19. they have become callous and have handed themselves over to licentiousness for the practice of every kind of impurity to excess.
20. That is not how you learned Christ,
21. assuming that you have heard of him and were taught in him, as truth is in Jesus,
22. that you should put away the old self of your former way of life, corrupted through deceitful desires,
23. and be renewed in the spirit of your minds,
24. and put on the new self, created in God’s way in righteousness and holiness of truth.
25. Therefore, putting away falsehood, speak the truth, each one to his neighbor, for we are members one of another.
26. Be angry but do not sin; do not let the sun set on your anger,
27. and do not leave room for the devil.