in whom also we were assigned an inheritance, having been foreordained according to the purpose of him who works all things after the counsel of his will;

in whom you also, having heard the word of the truth, the Good News of your salvation,?in whom, having also believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise,

You were made alive when you were dead in your transgressions and sins,

among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.

even when we were dead through our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

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

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

He came and preached peace to you who were far off and peace to those who were near.

I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to walk worthily of the calling with which you were called,

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

if indeed you heard him, and were taught in him, even as truth is in Jesus:

Do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

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