the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that you may know what is the hope of His calling, and what is the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints,

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now works in the children of disobedience;

and that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world.

But now in Christ Jesus you who were once afar off are made near by the blood of Christ.

having abolished in His flesh the enmity (the Law of commandments contained in ordinances) so that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, making peace between them;

Now therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

which in other ages was not made known to the sons of men, as it is now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit,

so that now to the rulers and powers in the heavenlies might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

and to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge, that you might be filled with all the fullness of God.

Now to Him who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us,

(Now that He ascended, what is it but that He also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

so that we no longer may be infants, tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine, in the dishonesty of men, in cunning craftiness, to the wiles of deceit.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should not walk from now on as other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,

And you should put on the new man, who according to God was created in righteousness and true holiness.

Let him who stole steal no more, but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, so that he may have something to give to him who needs.

For you know this, that no fornicator, or unclean person, or covetous one (who is an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Let no man deceive you with vain words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience.

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord loves the church.

And masters, do the same things to them, forbearing threatening, knowing that your Master also is in Heaven. There is no respect of persons with Him.

But, so that you also may know my affairs and how I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you all things,

whom I have sent to you for the same purpose, that you might know our affairs and that he might comfort your hearts.