do not cease giving thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,

far above all principality, and authority, and might, and lordship, and every name named, not only in this age, but also in the coming one;

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you -- of God the gift,

not of works, that no one may 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 you not to faint in my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

and ye did not so learn the Christ,

be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.

and make not sorrowful the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye were sealed to a day of redemption.

and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

also filthiness, and foolish talking, or jesting, -- the things not fit -- but rather thanksgiving;

become not, then, partakers with them,

See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

because of this become not fools, but -- understanding what is the will of the Lord,

and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

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

with good-will serving, as to the Lord, and not to men,

And the masters! the same things do ye unto them, letting threatening alone, having known that also your Master is in the heavens, and acceptance of persons is not with him.

because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;