In whom you, having been given the true word, the good news of your salvation, and through your faith in him, were given the sign of the Holy Spirit of hope,

For he is our peace, who has made the two into one, and by whom the middle wall of division has been broken down,

Which in other generations was not given to the sons of men, but the revelation of it has now been made to his holy Apostles and prophets in the Spirit;

And make all men see what is the ordering of the secret which from the first has been kept in God who made all things;

There is one body and one Spirit, even as you have been marked out by God in the one hope of his purpose for you;

But to every one of us has grace been given in the measure of the giving of Christ.

Whose thoughts are dark, to whom the life of God is strange because they are without knowledge, and their hearts have been made hard;