grace be to you, and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

which he made active in the Christ when he raised him from the dead, and caused him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,

For which reason, remember that you were formerly Gen tiles, by natural descent, and that you are called Uncircumcision by the Circumcision; so called, from a mark made in the flesh by hands;

that you were at that time without Christ, being aliens from the community of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope, and having no God in the world:

and enlighten all men with respect to the plan of the mystery, which was concealed from the ages in God, who created all things;

from whom the whole family in heaven and on earth is named,

from whom the whole body, compactly fitted together, and united by every helping joint, according to the energy in the measure of each part, makes increase of the body, for the building up of itself in love.

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

Let all bitterness and anger and wrath and clamor and impious speaking be put away from you, with all malice:

Wherefore, the scripture says: Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.

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

knowing that whatever good any one does, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he is a servant or a freeman.

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