Ephesians 4

“I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love” (1). Knowing Christ’s love, Paul wrote, our whole way of life should be different. We are called to treat one another with the compassion and forgiveness we receive from Christ (32). Working together, we “put off” our old selves (greed, impurity, darkness, 17-19) so that we can “be made new” in the attitude of our minds (23).

“Put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness” (23). Using our gifts, we support each other as God works to transform us “until we all reach unity in the faith” (12-13).