far above all the principalities, all the powers, all the potentates, all the dominations, and whatever order can be named, not only in this age, but also in the age to come:

it is the gift of God) but not by works, so that no man can boast:

but now you who were formerly at a distance, are brought near by the death of Christ Jesus.

Therefore now, you are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and domesticks of God's family,

Being one body, acted by one spirit, since you all have but one expectation in view;

there is but one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

but to every one of us a different charge is given, according to the distribution which Christ has made;

now his having ascended, what does it mean, but that he had descended into the lower parts of the earth?

but being sincere in mutual love, may be entirely united to Christ, who is the head:

but you have learned other things from Christ,

let him that stole, steal no more: but rather let him labour, to encrease his fortune with his own hands, that he may have wherewithal to relieve the needy:

But fornication, and all impurity, or inordinate desire, let it not be approved by you, as being unworthy of christians: neither ribaldry,

nor buffoonry, which they call pleasantry, but is indecent: be you rather exercised in social virtue.

you were heretofore altogether in the dark, but now being enlightned by the Lord, behave as children of light:

but whatever is unjustifiable will be brought to light: and that will show them to be unjustifiable.

See then that you behave circumspectly, and not as fools, but as wise,

wherefore be not imprudent, but consider what is agreeable to the divine will.

do not drink to excess, for that tends to dissoluteness, but be regal'd with spiritual entertainments:

no man was ever yet averse to his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, as the Lord doth the church:

and you fathers don't exasperate your children: but instruct them in the discipline and institution of the Lord.

not doing your work meerly out of regard to their presence or their pleasure, but as the servants of Christ, in hearty obedience to the will of God:

for our conflict is not barely with men, but with principalities, with potentates, with the princes of darkness, with wicked aereal spirits.