Grace be 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 seated him at his own right hand in the heavenly regions,

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

from whom every family in heaven and on earth receiveth its name,

that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro and borne about by every wind of teaching, through the dishonest tricks of men, and their cunning in the wily arts of error;

from whom the whole body, well put together and compacted by means of every supplying joint, is, according to the working of each part in its proportion, building itself up in love.

having their understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God on account of the ignorance that is in them, on account of the hardness of their hearts;

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evilspeaking, be put away from you, with all malice;

Wherefore he saith, "Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give thee light."

not with eyeservice as menpleasers, but as bondservants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

knowing that whatever good each one shall have done, that shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be bondman or free.

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