high above every principality and authority and power and dominion, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in that which is to come;

but God, being rich in mercy, on account of his great love with which he loved us,

but now, in Christ Jesus, you, who were formerly far off, have become near, by the blood of the Christ.

and that he might reconcile both, in one body, to God, through the cross, having by it put to death the cause of enmity;

Now, therefore, you are no longer strangers and sojourners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

But grace has been given to each one of us, according to the measure of the gift of the Christ.

But this He ascended what does it mean, but that he also descended into the lower earthly regions?

but speaking truthfully in love, we might grow up in all things, into him who is the head, even the Christ,

But you have not so learned the Christ,

that, as to your former life, you put off the old man, which is corrupt, according to its deceitful desires,

and put on the new man, which, according to the will of God, is created in righteousness and true holiness.

Let him that steals, steal no more: but rather let labor, working with his hands that which is good, that he may have something to give to him that has need.

Let no impure speech come out of your mouth, but whatever is good for needful edification, that it may give grace to the hearers:

Let all bitterness and anger and wrath and clamor and impious speaking be put away from you, with all malice:

But lewdness, and all manner of uncleanness, or covetousness, let them not be named among you, as it becomes saints;

nor obscene language, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not becoming; but rather the cheerful words of. a thankful heart.

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

and do not participate in the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather even reprove them;

But all these works, when reproved, are made manifest by the light: for every thing that makes manifest is light.

See, then, that you walk circumspectly, not as unwise, but as wise men,

Wherefore, be not ignorant, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

And be not drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit;

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

in order that he might present it to himself a glorious church, having neither stain, nor wrinkle, nor any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

for no one ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Christ the church:

Great is this mystery; but I speak of Christ and of the church.

But yet, let each one of you so love his wife as himself; and let the wife see that she reverence her husband.

And you fathers, do not provoke your children to anger: but bring them up in the instruction and discipline of the Lord.

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

Put on the whole armor of God, that you may be able to stand firm against the wiles of the devil:

for our conflict is not with flesh and blood, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the rulers of the darkness of this world, with the wicked spirits in the heavenly regions.

But that you, also, may know my affairs, how I do, Tychicus, my beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, will make known all things to you;