and that ye be renewed in the spirit of your mind,
Paul speaks with apostolic weight: you must not live as the heathen do, whose minds chase vanities and whose hearts are darkened and estranged from God's life. You were snatched as brands from the burning; do not return to that smoke.
AI summary
Commenting on Ephesians 4:17-32
be renewed--The Greek (ananeousthai) implies "the continued renewal in the youth of the new man." A different Greek word (anakainousthai) implies "renewal from the old state." in the spirit of your mind--As there is no Greek for "in," which there is at Eph 4:17, "in the vanity of their mind," it is better to translate, "By the Spirit of your mind," that is, by your...
Verse 23. And be renewed. That is, it is necessary that a man who has been following these should become a new man. , seq. Comp. . The word here used--ανανεοω--does not occur elsewhere in the New Testament; but it has the same meaning as the word used in , and . It means to make new, and is descriptive of the work of regeneration.