PAUL, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, to the saints in [Ephesus] and the faithful in Christ Jesus.

Grace be 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 heavenly [worlds] in Christ,

having predestinated us in love to an 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 which he purposed in himself

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

but God who is rich in mercy, on account of his great love with which he loved us,??5 even when we were dead in sins he made us alive with Christ,??y grace are you saved,

For by grace are you saved through the faith; and that not of you; [it is] the gift of God;

for we are his creation, created in Christ Jesus for good works, in which God before appointed that we should walk.

that at that time you were without Christ, alienated from the polity of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world;

and reconcile both in one body to God through the cross, having destroyed the enmity by it.

And he came and preached the good news of peace to you who were far off, and peace to those nigh,

Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow-citizens of the saints and of the family of God,

in which you also are built up together for a spiritual habitation of God.

if indeed you heard of the dispensation of the grace of God given to me for you,

of which I was made a minister by the gracious gift of God, given to me by the operation of his power.

and to enlighten all men as to the dispensation of the mystery concealed from eternity in God who created all things,

that now to the principalities and powers in the heavenly [worlds] should be made known, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God,

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

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

till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ,

with their understandings darkened, alienated from the life of God on account of the ignorance which is in them, on account of the hardness of their hearts,

and put on the new man, created after God in righteousness and true holiness.

Let him that has stolen steal no more, but rather let him labor, doing that which is good with his hands, that he may have to give to him that needs.

Let no evil word proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good for useful edification, that it may afford benefit to those that hear.

And grieve not the Holy Spirit of God, by which you were sealed to the day of redemption.

But be kind one to another, merciful, giving one to another, as God also in Christ gave to you.

Be therefore followers of God, as dear children,

and walk in love, as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, an offering and sacrifice to God of good odor.

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

Let no man deceive you with vain words; for on account of these comes the wrath of God on the children of disobedience.

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

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

knowing that whatever good each one does, for this he shall receive from the Lord, whether a servant or a freeman.

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

Take therefore the whole armor of God, that you may be able to resist 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 and love be to the brothers with faith, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.