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

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

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

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

that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

from whom all the body fitly framed and knit together through that which every joint supplieth, according to the working in due measure of each several part, maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love.

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

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

Wherefore he'saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.

not in the way of eyeservice, as men-pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

knowing that whatsoever good thing each one doeth, the same shall he receive again from the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

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