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

which he performed in Christ, when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly [worlds],

that at that time you were without Christ, alienated from the polity of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, having no hope and without God in the world;

and to enlighten all men as to the dispensation of the mystery concealed from eternity in God who created all things,

with their understandings darkened, alienated from the life of God on account of the ignorance which is in them, on account of the hardness of their hearts,

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and blasphemy, be banished from among you, with all malice.

Wherefore he says, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.

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

knowing that whatever good each one does, for this he shall receive from the Lord, whether a servant or a freeman.

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