“Therefore, laying aside falsehood,

• SPEAK TRUTH EACH ONE of you WITH HIS NEIGHBOR,
• for we are members of one another.
• BE ANGRY, AND yet DO NOT SIN;
• do not let the sun go down on your anger,
• and do not give the devil an opportunity.
• He who steals must steal no longer;
• but rather he must labor,
• performing with his own hands what is good,
• so that he will have something to share with one who has need.”

(The Letter of Paul to the Ephesians 4: 25-28 NASB)

Therefore is an introducing word, introducing a new sentence; however, therefore is also a connecting word, connecting what is about to be said to what was just previously said.  Thus, therefore is a transition, standing in the gap between that & this.

The THIS—STRIVE DAILY TO BE LIKE CHRIST!

“So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

• being darkened in their understanding,
• excluded from the life of God
• because of the ignorance that is in them,
• because of the hardness of their heart;

and they,

• having become callous,
• have given themselves over to sensuality
• for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness.

But you did not learn Christ in this way,

• if indeed you have heard Him
• and have been taught in Him,
• just as truth is in Jesus,

that, in reference to your former manner of life,

• you lay aside the old self,
• which is being corrupted
• in accordance with the lusts of deceit,

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

and put on the new self,

which in the likeness of God

has been created in righteousness

and holiness of the truth.”

(The Letter of Paul to the Ephesians 4: 17-24 NASB)

1. “laying aside falsehood, SPEAK TRUTH EACH ONE of you WITH HIS NEIGHBOR,”
2. “BE ANGRY, AND yet DO NOT SIN; do not let the sun go down on your anger,”
3. “do not give the devil an opportunity.”
4. “He who steals must steal no longer;”
5. “he must labor, performing with his own hands what is good,”
6. “share with one who has need.”

The Holy Spirit is moving & breathing inside each believer, inside every Christian.  He is the most-intimate part of every person who has given his heart to Jesus.  The Holy Spirit makes us fit for God.

1. “Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth,”
2. Speak only “a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment,”
3. The words we speak to one another should “give grace to those who hear.”
4. “Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God,”
5. “you were sealed for the day of redemption.”
6. “Let all bitterness”
7. “and wrath”
8. “and anger”
9. “and clamor”
10. “and slander be put away from you” [from all Christians]
11. “along with all malice.”