I never stop giving thanks for you as I remember you in my prayers.

And He put everything under His feet and appointed Him as head over everything for the church,

We too all previously lived among them in our fleshly desires, carrying out the inclinations of our flesh and thoughts, and we were by nature children under wrath as the others were also.

built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus Himself as the cornerstone.

The mystery was made known to me by revelation, as I have briefly written above.

This was not made known to people in other generations as it is now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit:

So then I ask you not to be discouraged over my afflictions on your behalf, for they are your glory.

Now to Him who is able to do above and beyond all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us—

There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to one hope at your calling—

The One who descended is also the One who ascended far above all the heavens, that He might fill all things.

Therefore, I say this and testify in the Lord: You should no longer walk as the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their thoughts.

And be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ.

Therefore, be imitators of God, as dearly loved children.

And walk in love, as the Messiah also loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

But sexual immorality and any impurity or greed should not even be heard of among you, as is proper for saints.

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

Pay careful attention, then, to how you walk—not as unwise people but as wise—

Wives, submit to your own husbands as to the Lord,

for the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church. He is the Savior of the body.

Now as the church submits to Christ, so wives are to submit to their husbands in everything.

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her

In the same way, husbands are to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

For no one ever hates his own flesh but provides and cares for it, just as Christ does for the church,

To sum up, each one of you is to love his wife as himself, and the wife is to respect her husband.

Slaves, obey your human masters with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your heart, as to Christ.

Don’t work only while being watched, in order to please men, but as slaves of Christ, do God’s will from your heart.

Serve with a good attitude, as to the Lord and not to men,

For this I am an ambassador in chains. Pray that I might be bold enough in Him to speak as I should.