Bible verse
to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
Ephesians 4:22 · BSB
The verses around it, from Ephesians 4.
18 They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
19 Having lost all sense of shame, they have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity, with a craving for more.
20 But this is not the way you came to know Christ.
21 Surely you heard of Him and were taught in Him—in keeping with the truth that is in Jesus—
22 to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
23 to be renewed in the spirit of your minds;
24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
25 Therefore each of you must put off falsehood and speak truthfully to his neighbor, for we are all members of one another.
26 “Be angry, yet do not sin.” Do not let the sun set upon your anger,
KJV
That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
ASV
that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, that waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
ERV
that ye put away, as concerning your former manner of life, the old man, which waxeth corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
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