Grace be with you and peace from God our father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead and set him on his righthand in heavenly things,

remember, I say, that ye were at that time without Christ, and were reputed aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and were strangers from the testaments of promise, and had no hope, and were without God in this world.

and to make all men see what the fellowship of the mystery is, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, which made all things through Jesus Christ,

be praise in the congregation by Jesus Christ, throughout all generations from time to time. Amen.

blinded in their understanding, being strangers from the life which is in God, through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their hearts.

so then, as concerning the conversation in time past, lay from you that old man, which is corrupt through the deceivable lusts,

Let all bitterness, fierceness and wrath, roaring and cursed speaking, be put away from you, with all maliciousness.

Wherefore he saith, "Awake thou that sleepest, and stand up from death, and Christ shall give thee light."

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

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

Grace be with all them which love our Lord Jesus Christ in pureness. Amen. {Sent from Rome unto the Ephesians by Tychicus.}