in the midst of which you once lived under the control of the present age of the world, and the master-spirit of the air, who is still at work among the disobedient.

In accordance with that purpose which runs through all the ages and which he has now accomplished in Jesus, the Christ, our Master.

I, then, the prisoner for the Master's sake, entreat you to live and act as becomes those who have received the call that you have received--

Therefore I warn you, and I implore you in the name of the Master, no longer to live as the Gentiles in their perverseness live,

Not only under your master's eye, as pleasers of men; but as servants of Christ, doing the pleasure of God from the heart;

Give your service heartily and cheerfully, as working for the Master and not for men;

For you know that every one will be rewarded by the Master for any honest work that he has done, whether he is a slave or a freeman.

And, ye masters, do the same things unto them, forbearing threatening: knowing that your Master also is in heaven; neither is there respect of persons with him.

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood [contending only with physical opponents], but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this [present] darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly (supernatural) places.

To enable you, as well as others, to know all that concerns me and what I am doing, Tychicus, our dear Brother and faithful helper in the Master's Cause, will tell you everything.