Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by God’s will:

To the faithful saints in Christ Jesus at Ephesus.

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

Praise the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens.

He made known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure that He planned in Him

I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, would give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him.

But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love that He had for us,

For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift—

For we are His creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared ahead of time so that we should walk in them.

At that time you were without the Messiah, excluded from the citizenship of Israel, and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

He did this so that He might reconcile both to God in one body through the cross and put the hostility to death by it.

When the Messiah came, He proclaimed the good news of peace to you who were far away and peace to those who were near.

So then you are no longer foreigners and strangers, but fellow citizens with the saints, and members of God’s household,

You also are being built together for God’s dwelling in the Spirit.

you have heard, haven’t you, about the administration of God’s grace that He gave to me for you?

I was made a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace that was given to me by the working of His power.

and to shed light for all about the administration of the mystery hidden for ages in God who created all things.

This is so God’s multi-faceted wisdom may now be made known through the church to the rulers and authorities in the heavens.

may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the length and width, height and depth of God’s love,

and to know the Messiah’s love that surpasses knowledge, so you may be filled with all the fullness of God.

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

until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of God’s Son, growing into a mature man with a stature measured by Christ’s fullness.

They are darkened in their understanding, excluded from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them and because of the hardness of their hearts.

you put on the new self, the one created according to God’s likeness in righteousness and purity of the truth.

No foul language is to come from your mouth, but only what is good for building up someone in need, so that it gives grace to those who hear.

And don’t grieve God’s Holy Spirit. You were sealed by Him for the day of redemption.

And be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving one another, just as God also forgave you in Christ.

Therefore, be imitators of God, as dearly loved children.

And walk in love, as the Messiah also loved us and gave Himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.

For know and recognize this: Every sexually immoral or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater, does not have an inheritance in the kingdom of the Messiah and of God.

Let no one deceive you with empty arguments, for God’s wrath is coming on the disobedient because of these things.

for what makes everything clear is light. Therefore it is said:

Get up, sleeper, and rise up from the dead,
and the Messiah will shine on you.

And don’t get drunk with wine, which leads to reckless actions, but be filled by the Spirit:

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

Don’t work only while being watched, in order to please men, but as slaves of Christ, do God’s will from your heart.

Serve with a good attitude, as to the Lord and not to men,

knowing that whatever good each one does, slave or free, he will receive this back from the Lord.

Put on the full armor of God so that you can stand against the tactics of the Devil.

This is why you must take up the full armor of God, so that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having prepared everything, to take your stand.

Take the helmet of salvation,
and the sword of the Spirit,
which is God’s word.

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