14. As a result, we are no longer to be like children, tossed around by the waves and blown all over by every wind of teaching, by the trickery of men with cunning in deceitful scheming.
15. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all ways into Messiah, who is the Head.
16. From Him the whole body is fitted and held together by every supporting ligament. The proper working of each individual part produces the body’s growth, for building itself up in love.
17. So I tell you this, indeed I insist on it in the Lord—walk no longer as the pagans do, stumbling around in the futility of their thinking.
18. They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance in them due to the hardness of their heart.
19. Since they are past feeling, they have turned themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of immorality, with greed for more.
20. However, you did not learn Messiah in this way—
21. if indeed you have heard Him and were taught in Him, as the truth is in Yeshua.
22. With respect to your former lifestyle, you are to lay aside the old self corrupted by its deceitful desires,
23. be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
24. and put on the new self—created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
25. So lay aside lying and “each one of you speak truth with his neighbor,” for we are members of one another.
26. “Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun go down on your anger,
27. nor give the devil a foothold.
28. The one who steals must steal no longer—instead he must work, doing something useful with his own hands, so he may have something to share with the one who has need.
29. Let no harmful word come out of your mouth, but only what is beneficial for building others up according to the need, so that it gives grace to those who hear it.