Cease not giving thanks in your behalf, making mention in my prayers,

Over-above all principality, authority, and power, and lordship, and every name that is named, not only in this age, but also in the coming one,

For, by his favour, have ye been saved, through means of faith, and this hath come to pass - not from you, of God, the free-gift!

Not from works, lest anyone should boast.

Which, in other generations, had not been made known unto the sons of men, as it hath, now, been revealed by his holy apostles and prophets, in Spirit; -

Ye, however, have, not thus, learned the Christ: -

Be ye angry, and not committing sin, let not the sun be going down upon your angry mood,

Let, the stealer, no more, steal, but rather let him be toiling, - working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have wherewith to be giving away to him that hath need;

And be not grieving the Holy Spirit of God, wherewith ye have been sealed unto a day of redemption;

But, fornication, and all impurity, or covetousness, let it not be named among you - even as becometh saints;

For, this, ye know, if ye take note - that no fornicator, or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.

Do not, then, become co-partners with them;

And be not joining in fellowship in the unfruitful works of darkness, but, rather, be even administering reproof;

Be taking heed, therefore, exactly how ye are walking, - not as unwise, but as wise, -

For this cause, do not become foolish, but have discernment as to what is the will of the Lord;

And be not getting drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be getting filled in Spirit; -

That, he, might present, unto himself, the assembly, all glorious, not having spot or wrinkle or any of such things, but that she should be holy and blameless;

And ye fathers, be not provoking your children to anger, but be nourishing them up in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

Not by way of eye-service as man-pleasers, but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God, from the soul,

with good will, rendering service - as unto the Lord, and not unto men;

Because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but, against the principalities, against the authorities, against the world-holders, of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenlies.