“That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;”
You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires — the ethical imperative begins with apotithēmi ('put off,' 'remove like a garment') the palaios anthrōpos ('old self,' the former humanity), defined as phtharō ('corrupted') by epithumia ('desire') planos ('deceitful,' seductive).
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