Ephesians 4:22

Easy To Read Version

You were taught to leave your old self. This means that you must stop living the evil way you lived before. That old self becomes worse and worse, because people are fooled by the evil things they want to do.

Cross References

Job 22:23

Job, come back to God All-Powerful,\par and you will be restored.\par But, you must remove the evil\par from your house.\par

Proverbs 11:18

An evil man cheats people and takes their money. But a person that is fair and does right will get the real reward.

Jeremiah 17:9

“A person’s mind is very tricky!\par The mind can be very sick,\par and no person truly understands it.\par

Jeremiah 49:16

Edom, you scared other nations.\par So you thought you were important.\par But your pride has fooled you.\par You live in those caves, high on the cliff.\par Your home is high in the hills.\par But even if you build your home\par as high as an eagle’s nest,\par I will bring you down from there.”\par The Lord said these things.\par

Romans 6:6

We know that our old life died with Christ on the cross. This happened so that our sinful selves would have no power over us. And then we would not be slaves to sin.

Romans 7:11

Sin found a way to fool me by using the command. Sin used the command to make me die \{spiritually\}.

2 Corinthians 11:3

But I am afraid that your minds will be led away from your true and pure following of Christ. This might happen the same as Eve was tricked (fooled) by the snake (the devil) with his evil ways.

Galatians 1:13

You have heard about my past life. I was in the Jewish religion. I persecuted the church of God very much. I tried to destroy the church (believers).

Ephesians 2:3

In the past, all of us lived like those people. We lived trying to please our sinful selves. We did all the things our bodies and minds wanted. We were \{evil\} people. We should have suffered God’s anger because of the way we were. We were the same as all other people.

Ephesians 4:17

For the Lord I tell you this. I warn you: Don’t continue living like those people who don’t believe. Their thoughts are worth nothing.

Ephesians 4:25

So you must stop telling lies. You must always speak the truth to each other, because we all belong to each other in the same body.

Colossians 2:11

In Christ you had a different kind of circumcision. {\cf2\super [9]} That circumcision was not done by the hands of any person. I mean you were made free from the power of your sinful self. That is the kind of circumcision Christ does.

Titus 3:3

Grace (kindness) and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Hebrews 12:1

We have those many people \{of faith\} around us. Their lives tell us what faith means. So we should be like them. We too should run the race that is before us and never stop trying. We should take away \{from our lives\} anything that would stop us. And we should take away the sin that so easily catches us.

Hebrews 3:13

But encourage each other every day. Do this while it is “today. {\cf2\super [19]} ” Help each other so that none of you will become hardened because of sin and the way sin fools people.

James 1:21

So put out of your life every evil thing and every kind of wrong thing you do. Be humble and accept God’s teaching that is planted in your hearts. This teaching can save you.

James 1:26

You might think you are religious (good). But if you say things you should not say, then you are fooling yourself. Your “religion” is worth nothing.

1 Peter 1:18

You know that \{in the past\} you were living in a worthless way. You got that way of living from the people who lived before you. But you were saved from that way of living. You were bought, but not with things that ruin like gold or silver.

1 Peter 4:3

In the past you wasted too much time doing the things that the non-believers like to do. You were doing sexual sins. You were doing the evil things you wanted. You were becoming drunk, having wild and wasteful parties, having drunken parties, and doing wrong by worshiping idols (false gods).

2 Peter 2:13

These false teachers have made many people suffer. So they themselves will suffer. That is their pay for what they have done. These false teachers think it is fun to do evil things openly \{where all people can see\}. They enjoy the evil things that please them. So they are like dirty spots and stains among you—\{they bring shame to you\} in the meals that you eat together.

2 Peter 2:7

But God saved Lot \{from those cities\}. Lot was a very good man. He was troubled because of the morally bad lives of evil people.

1 Samuel 1:14

Eli said to Hannah, “You have had too much to drink! It is time to put away the wine.”