In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God;

But now in Christ Jesus you who at one time were far off are made near in the blood of Christ.

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;

So that now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavens might be made clear through the church the wide-shining wisdom of God,

Now to him who is able to do in full measure more than all our desires or thoughts, through the power which is working in us,

(Now this, He went up, what is it but that he first went down into the lower parts of the earth?

For you at one time were dark, but now are light in the Lord: let your behaviour be that of children of light