far above all principality, and authority, and might, and lordship, and every name named, not only in this age, but also in the coming one;

Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,

whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

also filthiness, and foolish talking, or jesting, -- the things not fit -- but rather thanksgiving;

See, then, how exactly ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise,

because of this become not fools, but -- understanding what is the will of the Lord,

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

but even as the assembly is subject to Christ, so also are the wives to their own husbands in everything.

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 no one ever his own flesh did hate, but doth nourish and cherish it, as also the Lord -- the assembly,

but ye also, every one in particular -- let each his own wife so love as himself, and the wife -- that she may reverence the husband.

And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

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

because we have not the wrestling with blood and flesh, but with the principalities, with the authorities, with the world-rulers of the darkness of this age, with the spiritual things of the evil in the heavenly places;