as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him,

among whom also we all formerly lived in the desires of our flesh, performing the wishes of the flesh and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath even as others;

by reading which you can understand my knowledge of the mystery of Christ,??5 which in other generations was not made known to the children of men as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit,

and to enlighten all men as to the dispensation of the mystery concealed from eternity in God who created all things,

To him that is able to do far beyond all that we ask or think, by the power which operates in us,

There is one body, and one spirit, as you also are called in one hope of your call;

This I say then and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the other gentiles walk, in the vanity of their minds,

if you have indeed heard him, and been instructed by him as the truth is in Jesus,

But be kind one to another, merciful, giving one to another, as God also in Christ gave to you.

Be therefore followers of God, as dear children,

and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God of good odor.

Let not fornication and any impurity or covetousness be named among you, as becomes saints,

For you were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light,??9 for the fruit of the light is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,??10 proving what is well pleasing to the Lord,

See then that you walk discreetly, not as unwise but as wise,

Let wives [be subject] to their husbands as to the Lord,

for the husband is the head of the wife, as also Christ is the head of the church; he is the savior of the body.

But as the church is subject to Christ, so also let wives be subject to husbands in every thing.

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

Husbands ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loves his wife loves himself;

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

But do you also, individually, each one so love his wife as himself, and the wife [see] that she reverences the husband.

Servants, be subject to masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in the sincerity of your hearts as to Christ,

not with eye service as pleasing men, but as servants of Christ doing the will of God from the heart,

performing service kindly as to the Lord and not to men,

in behalf of which I perform an embassy in bonds, that I may speak boldly in them, as I ought to speak.