to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

So I say this, and insist in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility of their thinking.

They are darkened in their understanding, being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

So we are no longer to be children, tossed back and forth by waves and carried about by every wind of teaching by the trickery of people who craftily carry out their deceitful schemes.