do not cease giving thanks for you, making mention of you at my prayers,

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

For ye are saved by grace, through faith; and this not of yourselves; it is God's gift:

not on the principle of works, that no one might boast.

which in other generations has not been made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the power of the Spirit,

Wherefore I beseech you not to faint through my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

But ye have not thus learnt the Christ,

Be angry, and do not sin; let not the sun set upon your wrath,

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.

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which ye have been sealed for the day of redemption.

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.

Be not ye therefore fellow-partakers with them;

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

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,

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,

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

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.