Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ through the will of God, to the saints who are in Ephesus, and to the 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 did bless us in every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ,

having foreordained us to the adoption of sons through Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will,

having made known to us the secret of His will, according to His good pleasure, that He purposed in Himself,

in whom ye also, having heard the word of the truth -- the good news of your salvation -- in whom also having believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of the promise,

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

and God, being rich in kindness, because of His great love with which He loved us,

for by grace ye are having been saved, through faith, and this not of you -- of God the gift,

for of Him we are workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God did before prepare, that in them we may walk.

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

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

and having come, he did proclaim good news -- peace to you -- the far-off and the nigh,

Then, therefore, ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens of the saints, and of the household of God,

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

if, indeed, ye did hear of the dispensation of the grace of God that was given to me in regard to you,

that the nations be fellow-heirs, and of the same body, and partakers of His promise in the Christ, through the good news,

of which I became a ministrant, according to the gift of the grace of God that was given to me, according to the working of His power;

to me -- the less than the least of all the saints -- was given this grace, among the nations to proclaim good news -- the untraceable riches of the Christ,

and to cause all to see what is the fellowship of the secret that hath been hid from the ages in God, who the all things did create by Jesus Christ,

that there might be made known now to the principalities and the authorities in the heavenly places, through the assembly, the manifold wisdom of God,

to know also the love of the Christ that is exceeding the knowledge, that ye may be filled -- to all the fulness of God;

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

and He gave some as apostles, and some as prophets, and some as proclaimers of good news, and some as shepherds and teachers,

till we may all come to the unity of the faith and of the recognition of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to a measure of stature of the fulness of the Christ,

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

and to put on the new man, which, according to God, was created in righteousness and kindness of the truth.

whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.

Let no corrupt word out of your mouth go forth, but what is good unto the needful building up, that it may give grace to the hearers;

and make not sorrowful the Holy Spirit of God, in which ye were sealed to a day of redemption.

and become one to another kind, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, according as also God in Christ did forgive you.

Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,

and walk in love, as also the Christ did love us, and did give himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odour of a sweet smell,

for this ye know, that every whoremonger, or unclean, or covetous person, who is an idolater, hath no inheritance in the reign of the Christ and God.

Let no one deceive you with vain words, for because of these things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

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

subjecting yourselves to one another in the fear of God.

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

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

having known that whatever good thing each one may do, this he shall receive from the Lord, whether servant or freeman.

put on the whole armour of God, for your being able to stand against the wiles of the devil,

because of this take ye up the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to resist in the day of the evil, and all things having done -- to stand.

and having the feet shod in the preparation of the good-news of the peace;

and the helmet of the salvation receive, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the saying of God,

and in behalf of me, that to me may be given a word in the opening of my mouth, in freedom, to make known the secret of the good news,

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