1. What is Paul saying and affirming in verse 17? Say it in your own words.
   
   
2. What does it add to the meaning when he says ‘together with the Lord’ (Ephesians 4:17)?
   
   
3. What three ways does Paul describe the way the Gentiles (i.e. non-Jews) walk (Ephesians 4:17-18)? Briefly explain each.
   
   
4. What are the two reasons Paul gives for the way they are (Ephesians 4:18)?
   
   
5. After the darkening of the mind, Paul describes other ways that their lives will further digress from God’s standards. What are they? See Ephesians 4:19.
   
   
6. (Advanced) How does this pattern here: ignorance>hardening>sensuality>impurity reflect itself in what the apostle has said in Romans 1:20-27?
   
   

1. When we came to new life in Christ, what are the three transforming steps that we should see take place in every Christian’s life (verses 20-24)?
   
   
2. What the first step is? Explain what it means in your own words (Ephesians 4:22).
   
   
3. What the first step is? Explain what it means in your own words (Ephesians 4:23).
   
   
4. What the first step is? Explain what it means in your own words (Ephesians 4:24).
   
   
5. What is the new self (4:24)?
   
   
6. (Advanced) How does becoming in the ‘likeness of God’ reflect the phrase ‘in the image of God’ in Genesis 1-2?
   

1. What is the world like? Is it really as Paul says?
   
   
2. List the steps toward depravity as Paul summarizes them in verses 17-19 in your own words.
   
   
3. Can you see that different parts of society are to different degrees depraved? Illustrate.
   Is all the world, even your moral friends who don’t know the Lord, included in it?
   
   
4. Does verse 22 (lay aside the old self) describe what a person does once for all when he becomes a Christian or something that happens regularly?
   
   
5. Can a person take the second renewal step (renewed in the spirit of your mind 4:23) without the prior? Explain.
   
   
6. How is the second step of renewal different from the third (put on new self 4:24)?
   
   
7. Explain how you personally have seen these three steps of God’s grace taking part in your own life.
   
   
8. What step or area of Christian growth have you most struggled with? Explain.