according as He chose us in Him before the founding of a world, that we should be holy and without blemish before Him in love;

making known to us the mystery of His will, according to His good pleasure which He purposed in Him,

for a dispensation of the fulness of the seasons, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth; in Him,

in Whom we also were made a heritage, having been predestinated according to the purpose of Him Who worketh all things after the counsel of His own will;

that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of Glory, would give you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the full knowledge of Him;

which He wrought in Christ, when He raised Him from the dead, and seated Him at His right hand in the Heavenly places,

and He put all things in subjection under His feet, and gave Him as Head over all things to the assembly,

which, indeed, is His body, the fulness of Him Who is filling all in all.

and raised us up with Him, and made us sit with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus;

because through Him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

in Whom we have boldness and access with confidence through the faith of Him.

Now to Him Who is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,

to Him be the glory in the assembly, and in Christ Jesus, unto all generations of the age of the ages. Amen.

but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him, Who is the Head, Christ;

if, indeed, ye heard Him, and were taught in Him, as truth is in Jesus;

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands that which is good, that he may have to impart to him that has need.

And, masters, do the same thing to them, forbearing the threat; knowing that both their Master and yours is in Heaven, and there is no respect of persons with Him.