among whom also we all did walk once in the desires of our flesh, doing the wishes of the flesh and of the thoughts, and were by nature children of wrath -- as also the others,

even being dead in the trespasses, did make us to live together with the Christ, (by grace ye are having been saved,)

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you -- of God the gift,

Wherefore, remember, that ye were once the nations in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that called Circumcision in the flesh made by hands,

that by revelation He made known to me the secret, according as I wrote before in few words --

that the nations be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in the Christ, through the good news,

and to cause all to see what is the fellowship of the secret that hath been hid from the ages in God, who the all things did create by Jesus Christ,

that there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly places, through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God,

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,

that He may give to you, according to the riches of His glory, with might to be strengthened through His Spirit, in regard to the inner man,

that ye may be in strength to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height,

to know also the love of the Christ that is exceeding the knowledge, that ye may be filled -- to all the fulness of God;

that we may no more be babes, tossed and borne about by every wind of the teaching, in the sleight of men, in craftiness, unto the artifice of leading astray,

if so be ye did hear him, and in him were taught, as truth is in Jesus;

and to be renewed in the spirit of your mind,

be angry and do not sin; let not the sun go down upon your wrath,

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil-speaking, be put away from you, with all malice,

and whoredom, and all uncleanness, or covetousness, let it not even be named among you, as becometh saints;

for the things in secret done by them it is a shame even to speak of,

and all the things reproved by the light are manifested, for everything that is manifested is light;

and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

that he might present it to himself the assembly in glory, not having spot or wrinkle, or any of such things, but that it may be holy and unblemished;

for this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined to his wife, and they shall be -- the two -- for one flesh;'

which is the first command with a promise, 'That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live a long time upon the land.'

As to the rest, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might;

because of this take ye up the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to resist in the day of the evil, and all things having done -- to stand.

above all, having taken up the shield of the faith, in which ye shall be able all the fiery darts of the evil one to quench,

and in behalf of me, that to me may be given a word in the opening of my mouth, in freedom, to make known the secret of the good news,