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

which He worked in Christ in raising Him from the dead, and He seated Him at His right hand in the heavenlies,

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

and to bring to light what is the fellowship of the mystery which from eternity has been hidden in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ;

so that we no longer may be infants, tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine, in the dishonesty of men, in cunning craftiness, to the wiles of deceit.

from whom the whole body, fitted together and compacted by that which every joint supplies, according to the effectual working in the measure of each part, producing the growth of the body to the edifying of itself in love.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should not walk from now on as other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,

having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart.

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and tumult and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.

Therefore he says, "Awake, sleeping ones! And arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light."

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

(knowing that whatever good thing he does, he shall receive the same from the Lord, whether he is a slave or a freeman).

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