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

according as he has chosen us in him before the world's foundation, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love;

to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he has taken us into favour in the Beloved:

which he has caused to abound towards us in all wisdom and intelligence,

and has put all things under his feet, and gave him to be head over all things to the assembly,

(we too being dead in offences,) has quickened us with the Christ, (ye are saved by grace,)

and has raised us up together, and has made us sit down together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus,

For we are his workmanship, having been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God has before prepared that we should walk in them.

For he is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of enclosure,

and, coming, he has preached the glad tidings of peace to you who were afar off, and the glad tidings of peace to those who were nigh.

(if indeed ye have heard of the administration of the grace of God which has been given to me towards you,

that by revelation the mystery has been made known to me, (according as I have written before briefly,

which in other generations has not been made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the power of the Spirit,

To me, less than the least of all saints, has this grace been given, to announce among the nations the glad tidings of the unsearchable riches of the Christ,

and to enlighten all with the knowledge of what is the administration of the mystery hidden throughout the ages in God, who has created all things,

But to each one of us has been given grace according to the measure of the gift of the Christ.

Wherefore he says, Having ascended up on high, he has led captivity captive, and has given gifts to men.

He that descended is the same who has also ascended up above all the heavens, that he might fill all things;

and he has given some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some shepherds and teachers,

Let the stealer steal no more, but rather let him toil, working what is honest with his hands, that he may have to distribute to him that has need.

and be to one another kind, compassionate, forgiving one another, so as God also in Christ has forgiven you.

For this ye are well informed of, knowing that no fornicator, or unclean person, or person of unbridled lust, who is an idolater, has inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.

Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up for it,

For no one has ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as also the Christ the assembly: