but God, being rich in mercy, on account of his great love with which he loved us,

because you were at that time without Christ, being alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers of the covenants of the promise, having no hope and being atheists in the world.

But now you are in Christ Jesus, who being at one time far off have been made nigh by the blood of Christ.

having been built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone,

in whom the entire edifice, being assimilated, increases into a holy temple in the Lord;

from whom the whole body, being assimilated and knitted together through every joint of the supply, according to the working in each several part, makes increase of the body in the edification of itself in divine love.

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God through the ignorance being in themselves, on account of the blindness of their heart;

who being past feeling have given themselves up to debauchery, unto the working of all impurity with greediness.

but all things being convicted by the light are made manifest; for everything made manifest is light.

being submissive to one another in the fear of Christ.

because the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is also the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.

Stand therefore, being girded about as to your loins with truth, and being invested with the breastplate of righteousness,

and being shod as to your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace;