among whom all of us lived, we as well as you, when we obeyed the passions of our flesh, carrying out the dictates of the flesh and its impulses, when we were objects of God's anger by nature, like the rest of men.

For it is by grace you have been saved, as you had faith; it is not your doing but God's gift,

Thus you are strangers and foreigners no longer, you share the membership of the saints, you belong to God's own household,

Such is the gospel which I was called to serve by the endowment of God's grace which was vouchsafed me, by the energy of his power;

till we should all attain the unity of the faith and knowledge of God's Son, reaching maturity, reaching the full measure of development which belongs to the fulness of Christ ??14 instead of remaining immature, blown from our course and swayed by every passing wind of doctrine, by the adroitness of men who are dexterous in devising error;

And do not vex God's holy Spirit, by whom you have been sealed for the day of redemption.

Let no one deceive you with specious arguments; these are the vices that bring down God's anger on the sons of disobedience.

instead of merely working when their eye is on you, like those who court human favour, do God's will from the heart like servants of Christ,

put on God's armour so as to be able to stand against the stratagems of the devil.

So take God's armour, that you may be able to make a stand upon the evil day and hold your ground by overcoming all the foe.