as he hath elected us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love:

among whom also we all have had our conversation in time past, in the lusts of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, as well as the rest.

that by revelation he made known unto me the mystery, as I wrote unto you before briefly;

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

Now to him that is able to do above all things, exceeding abundantly, beyond what we ask or think, according to the power which effectually worketh in us;

There is one body, and one spirit, even as ye have been called to one hope of your calling;

This then I urge and testify in the Lord, that ye walk no more as the other Gentiles walk in the vanity of their mind,

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

but be ye kind one to another, full of sensibility, forgiving mutually, even as God in Christ hath forgiven you.

BE ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;

and walk in love as Christ also hath loved us, and given himself for us, an oblation and sacrifice to God, for an odour of a sweet smell.

But fornication and all impurity, or insatiable desire, let it not be mentioned among you, as becometh saints;

For ye were formerly darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord: walk as children of light;

Take heed, then, that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

Wives, be in subjection to your own husbands, as to the Lord.

For the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ is the head of the church; and is himself the saviour of the body.

As then the church is subject to Christ, so also let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.

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

So ought husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his own wife loveth himself.

For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

For this reason shall a man forsake his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and the two shall be as one flesh.

Nevertheless let every one of you individually see that each love his own wife even as himself; but the wife that she stand in awe of the husband.

Servants, be obedient to your masters after the flesh, with fear and trembling, in simplicity of your heart as unto Christ;

not with eye-service, as men-pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul;

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

for which I am an ambassador in bonds; that therein I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.