So then you are no longer foreigners and noncitizens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,

Therefore be very careful how you live – not as unwise but as wise,

For this reason do not be foolish, but be wise ¹  by understanding ²  what the Lord’s will is.

Stand firm therefore, by fastening ¹  the belt of truth around your waist, ²  by putting on the breastplate of righteousness,

So ¹  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. ² 

Therefore, be ¹  imitators of God as dearly loved children

I, therefore, the prisoner for the Lord, ¹  urge you to live ²  worthily of the calling with which you have been called, ³ 

When reading this, ¹  you will be able to ²  understand my insight into this secret ³  of Christ.

Therefore, having laid aside falsehood, each one of you speak the truth with his neighbor, ¹  for we are members of one another.

speaking to one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making music ¹  in ²  your hearts to the Lord,

and thus to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, so that you may be filled up to ¹  all the fullness of God.

So I say this, and insist ¹  in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility ²  of their thinking. ³ 

among whom ¹  all of us ²  also ³  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 ⁴  even as the rest… ⁵ 

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 ¹  by human hands –

The one who steals must steal no longer; rather he must labor, doing good with his own hands, so that he may have something to share with the one who has need.