to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

among whom all of us also formerly lived out our lives in the cravings of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as the rest…

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.

He did this when he revealed to us the secret of his will, according to his good pleasure that he set forth in Christ,

I do not cease to give thanks for you when I remember you in my prayers.

with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

and to enlighten everyone about God’s secret plan – a secret that has been hidden for ages in God who has created all things.

With every prayer and petition, pray at all times in the Spirit, and to this end be alert, with all perseverance and requests for all the saints.

Therefore remember that formerly you, the Gentiles in the flesh – who are called “uncircumcision” by the so-called “circumcision” that is performed on the body by human hands –

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.