cease not to give thanks on your behalf, making mention of you in my prayers;

far above all rule, and authority, and power, and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that to come;

For by grace ye have been saved through faith: and this, not of yourselves, it is the gift of God:

not of works, lest any one should boast;

which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit;

Wherefore, I ask that ye faint not at my tribulations in your behalf, which, indeed, is your glory.

from Whom all the body, fitly framed and knit together through every joint of supply, according to the working in due measure of each single part, secures the growth of the body to the upbuilding of itself in love.

But ye did not so learn Christ;

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath;

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands that which is good, that he may have to impart to him that has need.

Let no corrupt speech proceed out of your mouth, but whatever is good for the supplying of the need, that it may give grace to those who hear.

And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, in Whom ye were sealed unto the day of redemption.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becomes saints;

nor filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not becoming, but rather thanks-giving.

Do not, therefore, become partakers with them;

Look, therefore, carefully, how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

For this reason, be not foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

And be not drunken with wine, in which is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;

that He might present to Himself the assembly, glorious, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing, but that it may be holy and without blemish.

And, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

not with eye-service, as men-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul,

with good-will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men;

because to us the struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against the principalities, against the authorities, against the world-rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.