en_tn/eph/04/17.md

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This I say therefore, and I exhort you in the Lord

AT: "Therefore I strongly encourage you in the Lord"

no longer walk as the Gentiles walk in the futility of their minds

AT: "stop living like the Gentiles with their worthless thoughts"

being darkened in thought, alienated from the life of God by the ignorance that is in them and by the stubbornness of their heart

AT: "They cannot experience the life of God because their minds have been blinded and they are stubborn"

being darkened in thought

They no longer think or reason clearly.

alienated from the life of God

AT: "separated from godly living"

by the ignorance that is in them

AT: "because they have no knowledge of God"

by the stubbornness of their heart

They refuse to listen to God and follow His teachings.

They have handed themselves over to debauchery in impure actions, in every kind of greediness

AT: "They have given their lives to an excessive desire for pleasure by their evil behavior and greed for everything they desire"