How we cite our quotes:
Quote #4
Surely you have heard about him and were taught in him, as truth is in Jesus. You were taught to put away your former way of life, your old self, corrupt and deluded by its lusts, and to be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to clothe yourselves with the new self, created according to the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness. (Ephesians 4:21-24, NRSV)
If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus: That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts; And be renewed in the spirit of your mind; And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness. (Ephesians 4:21-24, KJV)
Before they knew about Jesus, these Gentiles were immoral jerks. Now they know better. Their knowledge of Jesus has transformed them into better people. With way nicer clothes!
Quote #5
Once you were darkness, but now in the Lord you are light. Live as children of light—for the fruit of the light is found in all that is good and right and true […] Therefore it says, "Sleeper, awake! Rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you." (Ephesians 5:8-9, 14, NRSV)
For ye were sometimes darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light […] Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light. (Ephesians 5:8-9, 14, KJV)
You know the drill. These guys were in the dark and then it was like someone turned on a flashlight when they found out about Jesus. It's like they've woken up and come alive after being in the dark clutches of death.
Quote #6
You who were once estranged and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled in his fleshly body through death, so as to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable before him—provided that you continue securely established and steadfast in the faith, without shifting from the hope promised by the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven. (Colossians 1:21-23, NRSV)
You, that were sometime alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works, yet now hath he reconciled In the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and unblameable and unreproveable in his sight: If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven. (Colossians 1:21-23, KJV)
Sure, you might have been evil before, but Jesus' death has washed all that away. The slate is wiped clean and the sinner is turned into the saved. Neat trick!