also we have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to His purpose who works all things after the counsel of His will,

even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),

For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God;

But now in Christ Jesus you who formerly were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.

having been built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus Himself being the corner stone,

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

and to bring to light what is the administration of the mystery which for ages has been hidden in God who created all things;

Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called,

if indeed you have heard Him and have been taught in Him, just as truth is in Jesus,

and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.