do not cease to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,

above every principality and authority and power and lordship, and every name that is named, not only in this life but also in that to come,

For by grace are you saved through the faith; and that not of you; [it is] the gift of God;

not of works, that no one may boast;

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,

Wherefore I desire you not to faint on account of my afflictions for you, which are your glory.

But you have not so learned Christ,

Be angry and sin not; let not the sun go down on your wrath,

And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, by which you were sealed to the day of redemption.

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

nor indecorum and foolish talking, or jesting, things not becoming, but rather giving of thanks.

Be not therefore partakers with them.

and be not partakers of the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

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

Be not foolish therefore, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

And be not drunk with wine, in which is excess, but be filled with the spirit,

that he might present the church to himself glorious, not having a spot or wrinkle or any thing of the kind, but that it should be holy and blameless.

And, fathers, provoke not your children, but bring them up in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

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,

for our conflict is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the potentates of the darkness of this world, against the spiritual [hosts] of evil in the heavenly [worlds].