Ephesians 4:20

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But that is not the way you learned Christ,

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  • Titus 2:11-14 : 11 For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people. 12 It teaches us to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and to live sensibly, righteously, and godly in the present age, 13 while we await the blessed hope and the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ. 14 He gave Himself for us to redeem us from all lawlessness and to purify a people for His own possession, who are eager to do good works.
  • John 6:45 : 45 It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me.
  • Rom 6:1-2 : 1 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin so that grace may increase? 2 Absolutely not! How can we who died to sin still live in it?
  • Matt 11:29 : 29 Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
  • Luke 24:47 : 47 And repentance and forgiveness of sins will be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
  • 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. 15 And he died for all, so that those who live should no longer live for themselves, but for the one who died for them and was raised.
  • 1 John 2:27 : 27 As for you, the anointing you received from Him remains in you, and you do not need anyone to teach you. But as His anointing teaches you about all things—and it is true and not a lie—just as it has taught you, remain in Him.

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  • Eph 4:21-24
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    21if indeed you have heard him and were taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus.

    22You were taught to put off your former way of life, the old self, which is corrupted by deceitful desires,

    23to be renewed in the spirit of your minds,

    24and to put on the new self, which is created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.

  • Col 2:6-8
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    6Therefore, just as you received Christ Jesus as Lord, continue to walk in him.

    7Be rooted and built up in him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.

    8See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit, based on human tradition and the elemental principles of the world rather than on Christ.

  • Eph 4:17-19
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    17Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their minds.

    18They are darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.

    19They have become callous and have given themselves over to sensuality for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

  • 14But you, continue in what you have learned and firmly believed, knowing from whom you have learned it.

  • Eph 4:14-15
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    14Then we will no longer be infants, tossed by the waves and blown around by every wind of teaching, by human cunning with cleverness in the techniques of deceit.

    15But speaking the truth in love, let us grow in every way into him who is the head—Christ.

  • 5not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God.

  • Eph 5:7-8
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    7Therefore, do not be partners with them.

    8For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light.

  • 20If you died with Christ to the elemental principles of the world, why, as though still living in the world, do you submit to its decrees?

  • 4They are surprised that you do not join them in their reckless, wild living, and they heap abuse on you.

  • 14But clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not make provision for the desires of the flesh.

  • 7You learned it from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our behalf,

  • 15For even if you have countless teachers in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For in Christ Jesus, I became your father through the gospel.

  • Gal 4:8-9
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    8But in the past, when you did not know God, you were enslaved to those who by nature are not gods.

    9But now, having come to know God—or rather, having been known by God—how can you turn back again to the weak and worthless elementary principles, whose slaves you want to be once more?

  • 4In your struggle against sin, you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood.

  • 14As obedient children, do not conform to the desires you had when you lived in ignorance.

  • 7You also once walked in these ways, when you were living in them.

  • 4You who are justified by the law have been severed from Christ; you have fallen away from grace.

  • 24Now those who belong to Christ have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.

  • Col 3:9-10
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    9Do not lie to one another, since you have put off the old self with its practices,

    10and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge according to the image of its Creator.

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    1Finally, brothers, we ask and urge you in the Lord Jesus, just as you received instructions from us on how you ought to live and please God, that you would excel even more.

    2For you know the commands we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

  • 16So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Even though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.

  • 1And you were dead in your transgressions and sins.

  • 9But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Him.

  • 20Brothers and sisters, do not be children in your thinking. Be infants in regard to evil, but in your thinking be mature.

  • 32Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ.

  • 9Now concerning brotherly love, you have no need for anyone to write to you, for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another.

  • 5Have the same mindset in yourselves that was also in Christ Jesus:

  • 9Anyone who goes beyond and does not remain in the teaching of Christ does not have God. Whoever remains in the teaching has both the Father and the Son.

  • 17Because of this, do not be foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

  • 1 Pet 4:1-2
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    1Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body on our behalf, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because whoever suffers in the body has ceased from sin.

    2As a result, you should no longer live the rest of your earthly life for human desires but instead for the will of God.

  • 6Brothers and sisters, I have applied these things to myself and Apollos for your sake, so that you may learn from us not to go beyond what is written. Then you will not be puffed up in being a follower of one of us over and against another.

  • 1You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes, Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified.

  • 30It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness, and redemption.

  • 11In him you were also circumcised with a circumcision not done by hands, by putting off the body of the flesh, through the circumcision of Christ.

  • 10Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one Instructor, the Christ.

  • 20an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of children, having in the law the form of knowledge and truth—

  • 6I am amazed that you are so quickly turning away from the One who called you by the grace of Christ to a different gospel—