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

and has put all things under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the assembly,

but God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love wherewith he loved us,

but now in Christ Jesus ye who once were afar off are become nigh by the blood of the Christ.

So then ye are no longer strangers and foreigners, but ye are fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,

But to him that is able to do far exceedingly above all which we ask or think, according to the power which works in us,

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

But that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended into the lower parts of the earth?

but, holding the truth in love, we may grow up to him in all things, who is the head, the Christ:

But ye have not thus learnt the Christ,

namely your having put off according to the former conversation the old man which corrupts itself according to the deceitful lusts;

and your having put on the new man, which according to God is created in truthful righteousness and holiness.

Wherefore, having put off falsehood, speak truth every one with his neighbour, because we are members one of another.

Let the stealer steal no more, but rather let him toil, working what is honest with his hands, that he may have to distribute to him that has need.

Let no corrupt word go out of your mouth, but if there be any good one for needful edification, that it may give grace to those that hear it.

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

and filthiness and foolish talking, or jesting, which are not convenient; but rather thanksgiving.

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

and do not have fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather also reprove them,

But all things having their true character exposed by the light are made manifest; for that which makes everything manifest is light.

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

For this reason be not foolish, but understanding what is the will of the Lord.

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

But even as the assembly is subjected to the Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything.

that he might present the assembly to himself glorious, having no spot, or wrinkle, or any of such things; but that it might be holy and blameless.

For no one has ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as also the Christ the assembly:

This mystery is great, but I speak as to Christ, and as to the assembly.

But ye also, every one of you, let each so love his own wife as himself; but as to the wife I speak that she may fear the husband.

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

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

Put on the panoply of God, that ye may be able to stand against the artifices of the devil:

because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against principalities, against authorities, against the universal lords of this darkness, against spiritual power of wickedness in the heavenlies.

Stand therefore, having girt about your loins with truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness,

But in order that ye also may know what concerns me, how I am getting on, Tychicus, the beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make all things known to you;