en_tn/eph/04/17.md

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## translationWords
* [[en:tw:exhort]]
* [[en:tw:gentile]]
* [[en:tw:god]]
* [[en:tw:heart]]
* [[en:tw:lordgod]]
## translationNotes
* **This I say therefore, and I exhort you in the Lord,** - "Therefore I strongly encourage you in the Lord"
* **no longer walk as the Gentiles walk in the futility of their minds** - "stop living like the Gentiles with their worthless thoughts"
* **being darkened in thought, alienated from the life of God by the ignorance that is in them and by the stubbornness of their heart** - "They cannot experience the life of God because their minds have been blinded and their hearts are hard"
* **being darkened in thought** - they no longer think or reason clearly.
* **alienated from the life of God** - "separated from godly living"
* **by the ignorance that is in them** - "because they have no knowledge of God"
* **by the stubbornness of their heart** - They refuse to listen to God and follow His teachings.
* **They have handed themselves over to debauchery in impure actions, in every kind of greediness** - "They have given their lives to an excessive desire for pleasure by their filthy behavior and greed for everything they desire"