So I say this And I insist in the Lord That you no longer live as the Gentiles do In the futility of their thinking They're darkened in Their understanding Alienated from the life of God Because of ignorance due to hardened hearts For they are callous Given themselves over to Indecency for the practice of all Impurity with greediness. But You did not learn About Christ like this, if Indeed you heard about him, taught in him Just as the truth is in Jesus You were Taught to put away Your old Way of life To lay aside The old man Corrupted and deluded by deceitful desires To be Renewed in the Spirit of your mind And put on The new man Created in God's image-in righteousness And holiness That comes from truth