PAUL, an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, to the saints which are at Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

grace be unto you, and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with every spiritual blessing in heavenly things in Christ;

having predestinated us for his adopted children by Jesus Christ unto himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

having made known to us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he purposed in himself;

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, would give you the spirit of wisdom and revelation by the knowledge of him;

But God, being rich in mercy, through the great love with which he hath loved us,

For by grace ye are saved through faith, and this not of yourselves; it is the gift of God:

for we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, for which God hath before prepared us, that we should walk therein.

and might reconcile them both in one body to God by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby;

So then ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the household of God;

by whom also ye have been built up together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

if so be, that ye have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given to me for you:

of which I am made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God, which was given unto me by the effectual working of his power.

and to make all men see what the communication of that mystery means, which was hid from the beginning in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:

that now to the principalities and powers in the heavenly regions, the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church,

in whom we have boldness and access with confidence to God by the faith of him.

and to know the love of Christ, transcendently surpassing knowledge, that ye may be filled with all the fulness of God.

one God, and father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

until we all attain in the unity of the faith, and the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a state of complete manhood, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

darkened in understanding; alienated from the life of God through the ignorance which is in them; through the blindness of their hearts:

Let him that stole steal no more; but rather labour hard, working with his hands that which is good, that he may have something to give to him that is in want.

Let no loose discourse proceed out of your mouth, but whatever is good for useful edification, that it may communicate grace to the hearers.

And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye have been sealed unto the day of redemption.

but be ye kind one to another, full of sensibility, forgiving mutually, even as God in Christ hath forgiven you.

BE ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children;

and walk in love as Christ also hath loved us, and given himself for us, an oblation and sacrifice to God, for an odour of a sweet smell.

For this ye know, that no whoremonger, or impure person, or avaricious, who is an idolater, hath an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things, the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience.

giving thanks always for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to God even the Father;

being subject one to another in the fear of God.

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

with good will doing service as to the Lord, and not unto men:

knowing that whatsoever good a man doeth, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be a bondman, or whether he be free.

Be clothed in the panoply of God, that we may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

Therefore take the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all things to stand.

And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God:

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