The New Commandments

Our study in Ephesians continues today with a look at the verses from 4:25 - 5:2.  Paul continues the earlier work in chapter 4 by working out the implications of the new life for the individual Christian.  

As Klyne Snodgrass in his Ephesians volume of the NIV Application Commentary observes, many of these commandments follow a formula of:  stop doing a negative, start doing a positive because of a certain motivation.

This is easily seen in the first verse of the section:  ²⁵ Therefore, having [put away falsehood], let each one of you [speak the truth] with his neighbor, [for we are members one of another].(ESV, brackets mine)