17 Now this I say and ⁿtestify in the Lord, that you must ^ono longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the ^pfutility of their minds. 18 They are darkened in their understanding, ^qalienated from the life of God because of the ^rignorance that is in them, due to their ^shardness of heart. 19 They have become ^tcallous and have given themselves up to sensuality, greedy to practice every kind of impurity. 20 But that is ^unot the way you learned Christ!— 21 assuming that you have heard about him and were ^vtaught in him, as the truth is in Jesus, 22 to ^wput off your ^xold self,¹ which belongs to your former manner of life and is corrupt through deceitful desires, 23 and to be ^yrenewed in the spirit of your minds, 24 and to put on the ^znew self, ^acreated after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.