and this is the pledge of our inheritance, being given for the deliverance of his peculiar people, to the display of his glory.

Wherefore remember that you were heretofore Gentiles, being denominated the uncircumcised, by those who are the circumcised by a manual operation;

that at that time ye were without all knowledge of the Messiah, being aliens from the common-wealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and living in the world without any true knowledge of God.

and being come, he preached the glad tidings of peace to YOU who were afar off, and to US that were nigh.

being built upon the foundation laid by the apostles and prophets, whereof Jesus Christ himself is the main stone of the angle:

Being one body, acted by one spirit, since you all have but one expectation in view;

till being united in a perfect belief, and acknowledgment of the son of God, we grow up to that full state of maturity required by Christ:

but being sincere in mutual love, may be entirely united to Christ, who is the head:

But fornication, and all impurity, or inordinate desire, let it not be approved by you, as being unworthy of christians: neither ribaldry,

you were heretofore altogether in the dark, but now being enlightned by the Lord, behave as children of light: