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

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

Blessed [is] the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly [places] in Christ,

having predestined us to adoption through Jesus Christ to himself according to the good pleasure of his will,

making known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure that he purposed in him,

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, {the glorious Father}, may give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him

But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love [with] which he loved us,

For by grace you are saved through faith, and this [is] not from yourselves, [it is] the gift of God;

For we are his creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, so that we may walk in them.

that you were at that time apart from Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, not having hope, and without God in the world.

and might reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, killing the enmity in himself.

And coming, he proclaimed the good news of peace to you who were far away and peace to the ones who were near,

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

in whom you also are built up together into a dwelling place of God in [the] Spirit.

--if indeed you have heard [about] the stewardship of God's grace given to me for you.

of which I became a servant, according to the gift of God's grace given to me, according to the working of his power.

To me, the least of all the saints, was given this grace: to proclaim the good news of the fathomless riches of Christ to the Gentiles,

and to enlighten everyone [as to] what [is] the administration of the mystery hidden from the ages by God, who created all [things],

in order that the many-sided wisdom of God might be made known now to the rulers and the authorities in the heavenly [places] through the church,

and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, in order that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

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

until we all reach the unity of the faith and the knowledge of the Son of God, to a mature man, to a measure of the maturity of the fullness of Christ,

being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance [that] is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,

and put on the new man (in accordance with God), who is created in righteousness and holiness from the truth.

The one who steals must steal no longer, but instead must labor, working with his own hands [what is] good, so that he may have [something] to share with the one who has need.

{No rotten word must proceed} from your mouth, but only something good for the building up of the need, in order that it may give grace to those who hear,

and do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

Become kind toward one another, compassionate, forgiving one another, just as also God in Christ has forgiven you.

Therefore become imitators of God, as beloved children,

and live in love, just as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and sacrifice to God for a fragrant smell.

For this you know {for certain}, that every sexually immoral [person], or unclean [person], or greedy [person] (who is an idolater), does not have an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

Let no one deceive you with empty words, for because of these [things] the wrath of God is coming on the sons of disobedience.

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

not {while being watched}, as people pleasers, but as slaves of Christ doing the will of God from the heart,

[because you] know that each one of you, whatever good he should do, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free.

Put on the full armor of God, so that you may be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil,

Because of this, take up the full armor of God, in order that you may be able to resist in the evil day, and having done everything, to stand.

and binding [shoes] under your feet with the preparation of the good news of peace,

and receive 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.