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

which he has worked in Christ, raising him from the dead and seating [him] at his right hand in the heavenly [places],

For by grace you are saved through faith, and this [is] not from yourselves, [it is] the gift of God;

[it is] not from works, so that no one can boast.

that you were at that time apart from Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, not having hope, and without God in the world.

and to enlighten everyone [as to] what [is] the administration of the mystery hidden from the ages by God, who created all [things],

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

from whom the whole body, joined together and held together by every supporting ligament, according to the working by measure of each single part, the growth of the body makes for the building up of itself in love.

being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance [that] is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,

and put on the new man (in accordance with God), who is created in righteousness and holiness from the truth.

{No rotten word must proceed} from your mouth, but only something good for the building up of the need, in order that it may give grace to those who hear,

All bitterness, and rage, and wrath, and clamor, and abusive speech, must be removed from you, together with all wickedness.

for everything made visible is light. Therefore it says, Wake up, sleeper, and rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.

not {while being watched}, as people pleasers, but as slaves of Christ doing the will of God from the heart,

[because you] know that each one of you, whatever good he should do, this he will receive back from the Lord, whether slave or free.

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