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

Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:

In whom we have a heritage, being marked out from the first in his purpose who does all things in agreement with his designs;

By which he made Christ come back from the dead, and gave him a place at his right hand in heaven,

So that we came back from death with him, and are seated with him in the heavens, in Christ Jesus;

That you were at that time without Christ, being cut off from any part in Israel's rights as a nation, having no part in God's agreement, having no hope, and without God in the world.

And make all men see what is the ordering of the secret which from the first has been kept in God who made all things;

From whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

I then, the prisoner in the Lord, make this request from my heart, that you will see that your behaviour is a credit to the position which God's purpose has given you,

Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts;

Do not be turned from the right way by foolish words; for because of these things the punishment of God comes on those who do not put themselves under him.

For this reason he says, Be awake, you who are sleeping, and come up from among the dead, and Christ will be your light.

For this cause will a man go away from his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two will become one flesh.

Not only under your master's eye, as pleasers of men; but as servants of Christ, doing the pleasure of God from the heart;

In the knowledge that for every good thing anyone does, he will have his reward from the Lord, If he is a servant or if he is free.

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