You were taught with reference to your former way of life to lay aside the old man who is being corrupted in accordance with deceitful desires,

and to put on the new man who has been created in God’s image – in righteousness and holiness that comes from truth.

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.

Nevertheless, each one of you must also love his own wife as he loves himself, and the wife must respect her husband.