Paul described the difference when he wrote: “This, therefore, I say and bear witness to in the Lord, that you no longer go on walking just as the nations also walk in the unprofitableness of their minds, while they are in darkness mentally, and alienated from the life that belongs to God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the insensibility of their hearts.
و با این کار فرق فاحشی در میان آنان و مردم خارج از جماعت به وجود آمد .‏ پولُس رسول این تفاوت را چنین توضیح داد :‏ « پس این را می‌گویم و در خداوند شهادت می‌دهم که شما دیگر رفتار منمایید ،‏ چنانکه امّت‌ها در بطالتِ ذهنِ خود رفتار می‌نمایند .‏