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

But God, being rich in mercy, through the great love with which he hath loved us,

but now in Christ Jesus, ye who formerly were far off, are become nigh by the blood of Christ.

So then ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

But to every one of us hath the grace been given, according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

Now this, that he ascended, what does it imply? but that he also first descended into the more internal parts of the earth?

but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, who is the head, even Christ:

But ye have not so learned Christ;

but be renewed in the spirit of your minds;

Let him that stole steal no more; but rather labour hard, working with his hands that which is good, that he may have something to give to him that is in want.

Let no loose discourse proceed out of your mouth, but whatever is good for useful edification, that it may communicate grace to the hearers.

but be ye kind one to another, full of sensibility, forgiving mutually, even as God in Christ hath forgiven you.

But fornication and all impurity, or insatiable desire, let it not be mentioned among you, as becometh saints;

or obscenity, or foolish talk, or loose witticisms; things which become not [a Christian], but rather thanksgiving.

For ye were formerly darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light;

And have no society with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather rebuke them.

For it is scandalous but to mention the things done of them in secret.

But all things which are rebukeable are made manifest by the light; for it is the light, by which every thing is made manifest.

Take heed, then, that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

Therefore be not unwise, but intelligent concerning what is the will of the Lord.

And be not drunk with wine, in which there is sottishness, but be filled with the Spirit;

that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having blemish, nor wrinkle, nor any such things; but that it may be holy and unblameable.

For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

This mystery is great: but I am speaking with regard to Christ, and with regard to the church.

Nevertheless let every one of you individually see that each love his own wife even as himself; but the wife that she stand in awe of the husband.

And, ye fathers, exasperate not your children: but educate them 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;

For our conflict is not merely against flesh and blood, but against principalities, and against powers, and against the rulers of the darkness of this world, and against wicked spirits in the aerial regions.

But that ye also may know the things which concern me, and what I am doing, Tychicus will inform you of the whole, a beloved brother, and faithful in the Lord: