have not ceased offering up my praises for you, making mention of you in my prayers,

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

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

not by works, lest any man should boast;

which in other generations was not made known to the children of men, as it hath been now revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit;

Wherefore I beseech you, that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

But ye have not so learned Christ;

Are ye provoked; and do you not sin? let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye have been sealed unto the day of redemption.

But fornication and all impurity, or insatiable desire, let it not be mentioned among you, as becometh saints;

or obscenity, or foolish talk, or loose witticisms; things which become not [a Christian], but rather thanksgiving.

Be not ye therefore partakers with them.

Take heed, then, that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

Therefore be not unwise, but intelligent concerning what is the will of the Lord.

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

that he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having blemish, nor wrinkle, nor any such things; but that it may be holy and unblameable.

And, ye fathers, exasperate not your children: but educate them in the discipline and admonition of the Lord.

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

with good will doing service as to the Lord, and not unto men:

For our conflict is not merely against flesh and blood, but against principalities, and against powers, and against the rulers of the darkness of this world, and against wicked spirits in the aerial regions.