according as he chose us in him, before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him;

having in love predestinated us for himself to be adopted as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the good pleasure of his will,

among whom even we all had our way of life in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath, even as others;

that by revelation the mystery was made known to me, as I wrote before in few words,

which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it hath now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;

Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that worketh in us,

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye were called in one hope of your calling;

He who descended is the same as he who ascended far above all the heavens, that he might fill all things.

This therefore I say, and charge you in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the rest of the gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind,

if indeed ye heard him, and were taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus;

that as to your former way of life ye should put off the old man, who perisheth according to the lusts of deceit,

Let no foul language proceed out of your mouth, but whatever is good for edification, as the need may be, that it may benefit the hearers;

and be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.

Be therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;

and walk in love, as Christ also loved you, and gave himself for you an offering and a sacrifice to God, of a sweet odor.

But fornication, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints,

For ye were once darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,

See then that ye walk circumspectly; not as unwise men, but as wise;

Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord;

for the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church,he, who is the Saviour of the body.

But as the church is subject to Christ, so let wives be to their husbands in everything.

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it,

In like manner husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself;

for no one ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as Christ doth the church;

However, do ye also severally love each one his own wife as himself; and let the wife see that she reverence her husband.

Bondservants, obey your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as serving Christ;

not with eyeservice as menpleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

doing service with good will, as to the Lord, and not to men;

in behalf of which I am an ambassador in chains; that I may proclaim it boldly, as I ought to speak.