in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth -- the good news of your salvation -- in whom also having believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise,

among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath -- as also the others,

Wherefore, remember, that ye were once the nations in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that called Circumcision in the flesh made by hands,

that ye were at that time apart from Christ, having been alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, having no hope, and without God, in the world;

Call upon you, then, do I -- the prisoner of the Lord -- to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called,

one body and one Spirit, according as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;

if so be ye did hear him, and in him were taught, as truth is in Jesus;

and make not sorrowful the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye were sealed to a day of redemption.

for ye were once darkness, and now light in the Lord; as children of light walk ye,