according as He did choose us in him before the foundation of the world, for our being holy and unblemished before Him, in love,

among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath -- as also the others,

that by revelation He made known to me the secret, according as I wrote before in few words --

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 you not to faint in my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,

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

and He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as proclaimers of good news, and some as shepherds and teachers,

This, then, I say, and I testify in the Lord; ye are no more to walk, as also the other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,

if so be ye did hear him, and in him were taught, as truth is in Jesus;

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,

and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

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

See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

The wives! to your own husbands subject yourselves, as to the Lord,

because the husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ is head of the assembly, and he is saviour of the body,

but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also are the wives to their own husbands in everything.

The husbands! love your own wives, as also the Christ did love the assembly, and did give himself for it,

so ought the husbands to love their own wives as their own bodies: he who is loving his own wife -- himself he doth love;

for no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly,

but ye also, every one in particular -- let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife -- that she may reverence the husband.

The servants! obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ;

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

with good-will serving, as to the Lord, and not to men,

As to the rest, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might;

for which I am an ambassador in a chain, that in it I may speak freely -- as it behoveth me to speak.