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Ephesians 4:22

James Moffatt - New Testament

you must lay aside the old nature which belonged to your former course of life, that nature which crumbles to ruin under the passions of moral deceit,

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knowing as we do that our old self has been crucified with him in order to crush the sinful body and free us from any further slavery to sin

Therefore, with all this host of witnesses encircling us, we must strip off every handicap, strip off sin with its clinging folds, to run our appointed course steadily,

so clear away all the foul rank growth of malice, and make a soil of modesty for the Word which roots itself inwardly with power to save your souls.

Rather admonish one another daily, so long as this word To-day is uttered, that none of you may be deceived by sin and hardened.

For we ourselves were once senseless, disobedient, astray, enslaved to all manner of passions and pleasures; we spent our days in malice and envy, we were hateful, and we hated one another.

Lay aside falsehood, then, let each tell his neighbour the truth, for we are members one of another.

It is quite enough to have done as pagans choose to do, during the time gone by! You used to lead lives of sensuality, lust, carousing, revelry, dissipation and illicit idolatry,

Now in the Lord I insist and protest that you must give up living like pagans; for their purposes are futile,

done out of the profits of their evil-doing. Pleasure for them is revelling in open daylight — spots and blots, with their dissipated revelling, as they carouse in your midst! —

you know it was not by perishable silver or gold that you were ransomed from the futile traditions of your past,

in him you have been circumcised with no material circumcision that cuts flesh from the body, but with Christ's own circumcision,

among whom all of us lived, we as well as you, when we obeyed the passions of our flesh, carrying out the dictates of the flesh and its impulses, when we were objects of God's anger by nature, like the rest of men.

but rescued righteous Lot who was sore burdened by the immoral behaviour of the lawless

You know the story of my past career in Judaism; you know how furiously I persecuted the church of God and harried it,

The command gave an impulse to sin, sin beguiled me and used the command to kill me.

Whoever considers he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue, but deceives his own heart, his religion is futile.

but I am afraid of your thoughts getting seduced from a single devotion to Christ, just as the serpent beguiled Eve with his cunning.

Drop all bitter feeling and passion and anger and clamouring and insults, together with all malice;




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