according as He chose us in Him before the founding of a world, that we should be holy and without blemish before Him in love;

and He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as Head over all things to the assembly,

among whom we also all once lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest;

that by revelation was made known to me the mystery, as I wrote before in brief;

which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as it was now revealed to His holy apostles and prophets in the Spirit;

Wherefore, I ask that ye faint not at my tribulations in your behalf, which, indeed, is your glory.

that He may grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit as to the inward man;

Now to Him Who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,

There is one body, and one Spirit, even as also ye were called in one hope of your calling;

This, therefore, I say, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind,

if, indeed, ye heard Him, and were taught in Him, as truth is in Jesus;

that ye put off, as to your former manner of life, the old man, who is corrupt according to the desires of deceit;

and become kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

Become ye, therefore, imitators of God, as beloved children;

and walk in love, as Christ also loved you, and delivered Himself up for you, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of sweet smell.

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

for ye were once darkness, but now are ye light in the Lord; walk as children of light

Look, therefore, carefully, how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

the wives, to their own husbands, as to the Lord;

because a husband is head of the wife, as Christ also is Head of the assembly; Himself the Savior of the body.

But, as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also let the women be to their husbands in everything.

Husbands, love your wives, as Christ also loved the assembly, and delivered Himself up for it,

So ought husbands also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;

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

Nevertheless, do ye also, severally, each one, so love his own wife, as himself; and let the wife see that she fear her husband.

Servants, obey your masters according to the flesh, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as to 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 to men;

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