The enmity, in his flesh - the law of commandments in decrees - bringing to nought, - that, the two, he might create in himself, into one man of new mould, making peace.

In whom, an entire building, in process of being fitly joined together, is growing into a holy shrine in the Lord;

In whom, ye also, are being builded together, into a habitation of God in Spirit.

Now this, He ascended; what is it, - save - that he also descended into the under parts of the earth?

Until we all advance - into the oneness of the faith, and the personal knowledge of the Son of God, into a man of full-growth, into the measure of the stature of the fulness of the Christ;

But, pursuing truth - may, in love, grow into him in all things, - who is the head, Christ, -

Being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God - by reason of the ignorance that existeth within them, by reason of their hearts being turned into stone,