Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

Now to the one who is able to do beyond all measure more than all that we ask or think, according to the power that is at work in us,

Now this, that he ascended, what does it imply? but that he also first descended into the more internal parts of the earth?

That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,

They became callous and gave themselves over to promiscuity for the practice of every kind of impurity with a desire for more and more.

Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

But you should not even talk about sexual immorality, or any type of [moral] impurity, or greed. [Note: Possibly "greed" here means "desire for more" of such things]. Such talk is not suitable for saints [i.e., God's holy people].