Ephesians 4:22
Good News Translation
So get rid of your old self, which made you live as you used to--the old self that was being destroyed by its deceitful desires.

New Revised Standard Version
You were taught to put away your former way of life, your old self, corrupt and deluded by its lusts,

Contemporary English Version
You were told that your foolish desires will destroy you and that you must give up your old way of life with all its bad habits.

New American Bible
that you should put away the old self of your former way of life, corrupted through deceitful desires,

Douay-Rheims Bible
To put off, according to former conversation, the old man, who is corrupted according to the desire of error.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

To put off, according to former conversation, the old man, who is corrupted according to the desire of error.

ye.

Ephesians 4:25 Wherefore, putting away lying, speak ye the truth, every man with his neighbour. For we are members one of another.

1 Samuel 1:14 And said to her: How long wilt thou be drunk? digest a little the wine, of which thou hast taken too much.

Job 22:23 If thou wilt return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, and shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacle.

Ezekiel 18:30-32 Therefore will I judge every man according to his ways, O house of Israel, saith the Lord God. Be converted, and do penance for all your iniquities: and iniquity shall not be your ruin. . . .

Colossians 2:11 In whom also you are circumcised with circumcision not made by hand in despoiling of the body of the flesh: but in the circumcision of Christ.

Colossians 3:8,9 But now put you also all away: anger, indignation, malice, blasphemy, filthy speech out of your mouth. . . .

Hebrews 12:1 And therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses over our head, laying aside every weight and sin which surrounds us, let us run by patience to the fight proposed to us:

James 1:21 Wherefore, casting away all uncleanness and abundance of naughtiness, with meekness receive the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

1 Peter 2:1,2 Wherefore laying away all malice and all guile and dissimulations and envies and all detractions, . . .

former.

Ephesians 4:17 This then I say and testify in the Lord: That henceforward you walk not as also the Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind:

Ephesians 2:3 In which also we all conversed in time past, in the desires of our flesh, fulfilling the will of the flesh and of our thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest:

Galatians 1:13 For you have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews' religion: how that, beyond measure, I persecuted the church of God and wasted it.

Colossians 3:7 In which you also walked some time, when you lived in them.

1 Peter 1:18 Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as gold or silver, from your vain conversation of the tradition of your fathers:

1 Peter 4:3 For the time past is sufficient to have fulfilled the will of the Gentiles, for them who have walked in riotousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings and unlawful worshipping of idols.

2 Peter 2:7 And delivered just Lot, oppressed by the injustice and lewd conversation of the wicked:

the old.

Romans 6:6 Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin may be destroyed, to the end that we may serve sin no longer.

Colossians 3:9 Lie not one to another: stripping yourselves of the old man with his deeds,

deceitful.

Proverbs 11:18 Clemency prepareth life: and the pursuing of evil things, death.

Jeremiah 49:16 Thy arrogancy hath deceived thee, and the pride of thy heart: O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, and endeavourest to lay hold on the height of the hill: but though thou shouldst make thy nest as high as an eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the Lord.

Obadiah 1:3 Behold I have made thee small among the nations: thou art exceeding contemptible.

Romans 7:11 For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, seduced me: and by it killed me.

Titus 3:3 For we ourselves also were some time unwise, incredulous, erring, slaves to divers desires and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful and hating one another.

Hebrews 3:13 But exhort one another every day, whilst it is called to day, that none of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

James 1:26 And if any man think himself to be religious, not bridling his tongue but deceiving his own heart, this man's religion is vain.

2 Peter 2:13 Receiving the reward of their injustice, counting for a pleasure the delights of a day: stains and spots, sporting themselves to excess, rioting in their feasts with you:

Context
New Life in Christ
21If so be that you have heard him and have been taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus: 22To put off, according to former conversation, the old man, who is corrupted according to the desire of error. 23And be renewed in spirit of your mind:…
Cross References
Jeremiah 17:9
The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable, who can know it?

Romans 6:6
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin may be destroyed, to the end that we may serve sin no longer.

2 Corinthians 11:3
But I fear lest, as the serpent seduced Eve by his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted and fall from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Ephesians 4:17
This then I say and testify in the Lord: That henceforward you walk not as also the Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind:

Ephesians 4:25
Wherefore, putting away lying, speak ye the truth, every man with his neighbour. For we are members one of another.

Ephesians 4:31
Let all bitterness and anger and indignation and clamour and blasphemy be put away from you, with all malice.

Colossians 3:8
But now put you also all away: anger, indignation, malice, blasphemy, filthy speech out of your mouth.

Colossians 3:9
Lie not one to another: stripping yourselves of the old man with his deeds,

Hebrews 3:13
But exhort one another every day, whilst it is called to day, that none of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of sin.

Hebrews 12:1
And therefore we also having so great a cloud of witnesses over our head, laying aside every weight and sin which surrounds us, let us run by patience to the fight proposed to us:

James 1:21
Wherefore, casting away all uncleanness and abundance of naughtiness, with meekness receive the ingrafted word, which is able to save your souls.

1 Peter 2:1
Wherefore laying away all malice and all guile and dissimulations and envies and all detractions,

Ephesians 4:21
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