In whom ye also trusted, when ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also when ye believed, ye were sealed with the holy Spirit of promise,

Wherefore I also, having heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus,

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

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:

speaking to yourselves in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord:

Servants, obey them that are your masters according to the flesh, with reverential fear, in the simplicity of your heart, as unto Christ:

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