as he elected us in himself before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless in his presence.

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

Therefore I say this, and witness in the Lord, that you no longer walk about as the Gentiles also walk about in the vanity of their mind,

if indeed ye have heard him, and been taught in him, as the truth is in Jesus:

But be ye kind toward one another, merciful, forgiving one another, as indeed God in Christ forgave you.

Therefore be ye imitators of God, as beloved children;

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

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

For at one time ye were darkness, but now ye are light in the Lord: walk about as children of the light,

Therefore see how you walk about circumspectly, not as unwise, but wise;

Wives, be submissive to your own husbands, as to the Lord,

because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is also the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

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

Husbands, love your wives with divine love, as Christ also loved the church with divine love, and gave himself for her;

So the husbands ought to love their own wives with divine love as their own bodies. The one loving his own wife is loving himself:

for no one ever yet hated his own flesh; but he nourishes and cherishes it, as Christ also the church;

Moreover you also each one thus love his own wife with divine love as himself; and that the wife also reverence the husband.

Ye servants, obey those who are your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in purity of your heart, as unto Christ;

not with eyeservice, as menpleasers, but as the servants of Christ doing the will of God from the soul;

serving with good will as the Lord, and not men:

Stand therefore, being girded about as to your loins with truth, and being invested with the breastplate of righteousness,

and being shod as to your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

for which I am an ambassador in chain; in order that in it I may preach boldly, as it behooves me to speak.