Moffatt(i)
17 Now in the Lord I insist and protest that you must give up living like pagans; for their purposes are futile,
18 their intelligence is darkened, they are estranged from the life of God by the ignorance which their dulness of heart has produced in them —
19 men who have recklessly abandoned themselves to sensuality, with a lust for the business of impurity in every shape and form.
20 That is not how you have understood the meaning of Christ
21 (for it is Christ whom you have been taught, it is in Christ that you have been instructed — the real Christ who is in Jesus);
22 you must lay aside the old nature which belonged to your former course of life, that nature which crumbles to ruin under the passions of moral deceit,