Paul an apostle of Jesus Christ, by the will of God, to the saints, who are at Ephesus, even the faithful in Christ Jesus;

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

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

having before appointed us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ unto Himself, according to the good pleasure of his will;

having made known to us the secret of his will, according to his good pleasure, which He had before purposed in Himself:

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, would give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation to the knowledge of Him,

But God being rich in mercy, through his great love wherewith He loved us,

For by grace ye are saved, through faith: and this not of yourselves; it is the gift of God: not by works, that no one may boast:

created in Christ Jesus unto good works, for which God before prepared us, that we might walk in them.

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

and that He might reconcile both in one body unto God, by the cross, having thereby slain the enmity:

Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the saints, and of the houshold of God;

in whom ye also are built up together for an habitation of God by the Spirit.

as ye have heard the dispensation of the grace of God, which was given me to preach unto you:

of which I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God conferred on me by the effectual operation of his power.

and make all men to see the communication of the mystery, which from the ages past hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ;

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

and height, and to know the love of Christ, which surpasseth knowledge; that ye may be filled according to the abundant fulness of God.

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

till we all arrive in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, at perfect maturity, even to the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.

in the vanity of their mind, darkened in their understanding, and alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is in them, by reason of the hardness of their heart:

and to put on the new man, which according to the image of God is created in righteousness, and true holiness.

Let him that stole steal no more; but rather let him labour, doing some good with his hands, that he may have something to bestow on him that hath need of it.

Let no corrupt word come out of your mouth; but what is good to useful edification, that it may benefit the hearers.

And grieve not the holy Spirit of God whereby ye are sealed to the day of redemption.

tender-hearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgiveth you.

Be ye therefore imitators of God as his dear children; and walk in love,

even as Christ hath loved us, and given Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of sweet perfume.

For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, (who is an idolater,) hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

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

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

submitting yourselves to each other in the fear of God.

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

with good-will, as serving the Lord rather than men:

knowing that whatever good any one doth, he shall receive the reward of it from the Lord, whether He be a slave or free.

Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the Devil.

Take therefore the complete armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all to stand.

take also 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.