4 ¹⁷ This then is my word to you, and I urge it upon you in the Lord's name. Give up living like pagans with their good-for-nothing notions. 4 ¹⁸ Their wits are beclouded, they are strangers to the life that is in God, because ignorance prevails among them and their minds have grown hard as stone. 4 ¹⁹ Dead to all feeling, they have abandoned themselves to vice, and stop at nothing to satisfy their foul desires. 4 ²⁰ But that is not how you learned Christ. 4 ²¹ For were you not told of him, were you not as Christians taught the truth as it is in Jesus? 4 ²² —that, leaving your former way of life, you must lay aside that old human nature which, deluded by its lusts, is sinking towards death. 4 ²³ You must be made new in mind and spirit, 4 ²⁴ and put on the new nature of God's creating, which shows itself in the just and devout life called for by the truth.