Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ by God's will, to the saints and faithful in Christ Jesus who are at Ephesus.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenlies in Christ;

having marked us out beforehand for adoption through Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he purposed in himself

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, would give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the full knowledge of him,

but God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love wherewith he loved us,

For ye are saved by grace, through faith; and this not of yourselves; it is God's gift:

For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has before prepared that we should walk in them.

that ye were at that time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

and might reconcile both in one body to God by the cross, having by it slain the enmity;

So then ye are no longer strangers and foreigners, but ye are fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,

in whom ye also are built together for a habitation of God in the Spirit.

(if indeed ye have heard of the administration of the grace of God which has been given to me towards you,

of which I am become minister according to the gift of the grace of God given to me, according to the working of his power.

and to enlighten all with the knowledge of what is the administration of the mystery hidden throughout the ages in God, who has created all things,

in order that now to the principalities and authorities in the heavenlies might be made known through the assembly the all-various wisdom of God,

and to know the love of the Christ which surpasses knowledge; that ye may be filled even to all the fulness of God.

one God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in us all.

until we all arrive at the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, at the full-grown man, at the measure of the stature of the fulness of the Christ;

being darkened in understanding, estranged from the life of God by reason of the ignorance which is in them, by reason of the hardness of their hearts,

and your having put on the new man, which according to God is created in truthful righteousness and holiness.

Let no corrupt word go out of your mouth, but if there be any good one for needful edification, that it may give grace to those that hear it.

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with which ye have been sealed for the day of redemption.

and be to one another kind, compassionate, forgiving one another, so as God also in Christ has forgiven you.

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children,

and walk in love, even as the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour.

For this ye are well informed of, knowing that no fornicator, or unclean person, or person of unbridled lust, who is an idolater, has inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.

Let no one deceive you with vain words, for on account of these things the wrath of God comes upon the sons of disobedience.

giving thanks at all times for all things to him who is God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

not with eye-service as men-pleasers; but as bondmen of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul,

serving with good will as to the Lord, and not to men;

knowing that whatever good each shall do, this he shall receive of the Lord, whether bond or free.

Put on the panoply of God, that ye may be able to stand against the artifices of the devil:

For this reason take to you the panoply of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and, having accomplished all things, to stand.

Have also the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is God's word;

Peace to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.