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

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

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

having predestined us to the adoption of children by 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, may give to you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him,

But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love with which He loved us

For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God,

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them.

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

and so that He might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity in Himself.

Now therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

in whom you also are built together for a dwelling place of God through the Spirit.

if you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which is given to me toward you,

Of this gospel I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given to me by the effectual working of His power.

and to bring to light what is the fellowship of the mystery which from eternity has been hidden in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ;

so that now to the rulers and powers in the heavenlies might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

and to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge, that you might be filled with all the fullness of God.

one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in you all.

And this until we all come into the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a full-grown man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ;

having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.

And you should put on the new man, who according to God was created in righteousness and true holiness.

Let him who stole steal no more, but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, so that he may have something to give to him who needs.

Let not any filthy word go out of your mouth, but if any is good to building up in respect of need, that it may give grace to the ones hearing.

And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you are sealed until the day of redemption.

And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you.

Therefore be followers of God, as dear children.

And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us, and has given Himself for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet smelling savor.

For you know this, that no fornicator, or unclean person, or covetous one (who is an idolater), has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Let no man deceive you with vain words, for because of these things the wrath of God comes upon the children of disobedience.

always giving thanks for all things to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,

submitting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

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

with good will doing service as to the Lord and not to men

(knowing that whatever good thing he does, he shall receive the same from the Lord, whether he is a slave or a freeman).

Put on the whole armor of God so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Therefore take to yourselves the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God,

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