Ephesians 4:22
[namely] your having put off according to the former conversation the old man which corrupts itself according to the deceitful lusts;
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
21if ye have heard him and been instructed in him according as [the] truth is in Jesus;
23and being renewed in the spirit of your mind;
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:14And Eli said to her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.
Proverbs 11:18The wicked worketh a deceitful work; but he that soweth righteousness hath a sure reward.
Ezekiel 18:30Therefore I will judge you, house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord Jehovah. Return ye, and turn from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your snare.
Romans 6:6knowing this, that our old man has been crucified with [him], that the body of sin might be annulled, that we should no longer serve sin.
Galatians 1:13For ye have heard [what was] my conversation formerly in Judaism, that I excessively persecuted the assembly of God, and ravaged it;
Ephesians 4:17This I say therefore, and testify in [the] Lord, that ye should no longer walk as [the rest of] the nations walk in [the] vanity of their mind,
Matthew Henry on Ephesians 4:18-32
Exhortation to Purity and Holiness; Cautions against Sin; Against Grieving the Spirit. ( a. d. 61.) 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: 19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. 20 But ye have not… Read the whole commentary →