Ephesians 4:7-16 - Gifted Leaders Bring The Church To Maturity

⁷ To each one of you, however, hath favour been given, according to the measure of the free-gift of the Christ; ⁸ Wherefore he saith - Ascending on high, he took captivity captive, and gave gifts unto men.

⁹ Now this, He ascended; what is it, - save - that he also descended into the under parts of the earth? ¹⁰ He that descended, he, it is who also ascended over-above all the heavens, that he might fill all things; ¹¹ And, he, gave - some, indeed, to be apostles, and some, prophets, and some, evangelists, and some, shepherds and teachers, - ¹² With a view to the fitting of the saints for the work of ministering, for an upbuilding of the body of the Christ; ¹³ Until we all advance - into the oneness of the faith, and the personal knowledge of the Son of God, into a man of full-growth, into the measure of the stature of the fulness of the Christ; ¹⁴ That we may, no longer, be infants - billow-tossed and shifted round with every wind of teaching, - in the craft of men, in knavery suited to the artifice of error; ¹⁵ But, pursuing truth - may, in love, grow into him in all things, - who is the head, Christ, - ¹⁶ Out of whom all the body - fitly framing itself together, and connecting itself, through means of every joint of supply, by way of energising in the measure of each single part - secureth the growing of the body, unto an upbuilding of itself in love.