4:17 So I say this, and insist ³  in the Lord, that you no longer live as the Gentiles do, in the futility ⁴  of their thinking. ⁵  4:18 They are darkened in their understanding, ⁶  being alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts. 4:19 Because they are callous, they have given themselves over to indecency for the practice of every kind of impurity with greediness. ⁷