17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer (A) live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

You must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. They are darkened in their understanding and separated from the life of God.

Ephesians 4:17–24 — The New International Version (NIV) 17 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, ...

Ephesians 4:17-24 So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the ...

Ephesians 4:17-24: So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

Their minds are full of darkness; they wander far from the life God gives because they have closed their minds and hardened their hearts against him.

Ephesians 4:17-24 · 17So I tell you this, and insist on it in the Lord, that you must no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking. · 18 ...

Chapter 4. 17Now this I say and testify in the Lord, that you must no longer walk as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their minds.

3 But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality,p or of any kind of impurity, or of greed,q because these are improper for God's holy people.