³ So nimm doch nun, HERR, meine Seele von mir; denn ich wollte lieber tot sein als leben.

²⁸ Da ward er zornig und wollte nicht hineingehen. Da ging sein Vater heraus und bat ihn.

¹⁷ This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

¹⁸ being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;

¹⁹ who having become callous gave themselves up to lust, to work all uncleanness with greediness.

²⁰ But you did not learn Christ that way;

²¹ if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:

²² that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;

²³ and that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

²⁴ and put on the new man, who in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.