Therefore, putting away lying, let each one of you speak truth with his neighbor, for we are members of one another.

So Eli said to her, How long will you be drunk? Put your wine away from you!

If you return to the Almighty, you shall be built up; you shall remove injustice far from your tents.

Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, says the Lord Jehovah. Repent, and turn from all your transgressions, so that iniquity shall not be a stumbling block to you.

For I have no pleasure in the death of one who dies, declares the Lord Jehovah. Therefore turn and live!

In Him you were also circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, by putting off the body of the sins of the flesh, by the circumcision of Christ,

But now you yourselves are to put off all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy language out of your mouth.

Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his practices,

Therefore we also, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which so persistently harasses us, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us,

Therefore lay aside all filthiness and overflow of wickedness, and receive with meekness the implanted Word, which has the power to save your souls.

Therefore, laying aside all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil speaking,

as newborn babes, desire the pure milk of the Word, that you may grow thereby,

This I say, therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles walk, in the emptiness of their mind,

among whom also we all formerly conducted ourselves in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, just as the others;

For you have heard of my former conduct in Judaism, how I persecuted the church of God beyond measure and tried to destroy it.

in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them.

knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your vain way of life received by tradition from your fathers,

For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in licentiousness, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties, and abominable idolatries.

and delivered righteous Lot, who was oppressed by the lustful behavior of the wicked

knowing this, that our old man was crucified with Him, that the body of sin might be nullified, that we should no longer serve sin.

Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old man with his practices,

The wicked does deceitful work, but one sowing righteousness receives honest wages.

Your dreadfulness has deceived you, and the pride of your heart, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill. Though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there, says Jehovah.

The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who dwell in the clefts of the rock; whose dwelling is high, saying in your heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground?

For sin, taking occasion through the commandment, deceived me, and through it killed me.

For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, led astray, enslaved to various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

but exhort one another daily, while it is called Today, that not any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

If anyone among you thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but beguiles his own heart, this one's religion is vain.

and will receive the wages of unrighteousness, as those who consider it pleasure to carouse in the daytime. They are spots and blemishes, delighting in their own deceptions while they feast with you,