just as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, [that] we should be holy and blameless before him in love,

Because of this I also, hearing of {your faith} in the Lord Jesus and your love for all the saints,

But God, being rich in mercy, because of his great love [with] which he loved us,

[that] Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith (you having been firmly rooted and established in love),

and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, in order that you may be filled up to all the fullness of God.

Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to live in a manner worthy of the calling with which you were called:

with all humility and gentleness, with patience, putting up with one another in love,

But speaking the truth in love, we are to grow into him [with reference to] all [things], who is the head, Christ,

from whom the whole body, joined together and held together by every supporting ligament, according to the working by measure of each single part, the growth of the body makes for the building up of itself in love.

being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance [that] is in them, because of the hardness of their heart,

[that] you take off, according to your former way of life, the old man, who is being destroyed according to deceitful desires,

and live in love, just as also Christ loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and sacrifice to God for a fragrant smell.

for you were formerly darkness, but now [you are] light in the Lord. Live like children of light

Therefore, consider carefully how you live, not as unwise but as wise,

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for her;

Thus also husbands ought to love their own wives as their own bodies. The one who loves his own wife loves himself.

Only you also, each one [of you], must thus love his own wife as himself, and the wife {must respect} her husband.

"in order that it may be well with you, and you may {live a long time} on the earth."

Peace to the brothers and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Grace [be] with all who love our Lord Jesus Christ in incorruptibility.