just as he chose us in the Messiah before the creation of the universe to be holy and blameless in his presence. In love

Indeed, all of us once behaved like them in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of our flesh and senses. By nature we were destined for wrath, just like everyone else.

But, just now, in Christ Jesus, ye, who at one time were afar off, were made nigh in the blood of the Christ;

and how this secret was made known to me through a revelation, just as I wrote about briefly in the past.

There is but one body and one Spirit, just as there is but one hope resulting from the call you have received;

So this I say, and affirm together with the Lord, that you walk no longer just as the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

if indeed you have heard [about] him, and you were taught by him (just as truth is in Jesus),

You must practice being kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, just as God through Christ has graciously forgiven you.

and practice living in love, just as Christ loved you too and gave Himself for you as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.

for a husband is the head of his wife, just as Christ is the Head of the church, His body, and Saviour of it.

Just as the church is subject to Christ, so the married women in everything must be subject to their husbands.

You married men must love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her,

for no one ever hates his own physical person, but he feeds and fosters it, just as Christ does the church;

But each one of you must love his wife just as he loves himself, and the wife, too, must respect her husband.

Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is just.

Do not serve them only when you are being watched, just to gain their approval, but as slaves of Christ, doing what God wants from your heart.

Render your service wholeheartedly, as you would to the Lord, and not [just] to people,

and you masters have a just regard to them, by softning your authority: knowing that both their and your master is in heaven, where there is no respect of persons with him.