far above all principality and authority and power and dominion, and every name being named, not only in this world, but also in the coming age.

And He has put all things under His feet and gave Him to be Head over all things to the church,

But God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love with which He loved us

But now in Christ Jesus you who were once afar off are made near by the blood of Christ.

Now therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,

But to every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ.

(Now that He ascended, what is it but that He also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?

But that you, speaking the truth in love, may in all things grow up to Him who is the Head, even Christ;

But you have not so learned Christ,

For you ought to put off the old man (according to your way of living before) who is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts,

And you should put on the new man, who according to God was created in righteousness and true holiness.

Let him who stole steal no more, but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing which is good, so that he may have something to give to him who needs.

Let not any filthy word go out of your mouth, but if any is good to building up in respect of need, that it may give grace to the ones hearing.

Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and tumult and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice.

neither baseness, foolish talking, jesting, which are not becoming, but rather giving of thanks.

For you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light

And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light, for whatever makes manifest is light.

See then that you walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

Therefore do not be unwise, but understand what the will of the Lord is.

And do not be drunk with wine, in which is excess, but be filled with the Spirit,

that He might present it to Himself as the glorious church, without spot or wrinkle or any such things, but that it should be holy and without blemish.

For no man ever yet hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as the Lord loves the church.

This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

But also let everyone of you in particular so love his wife even as himself, and the wife that she defers to her husband.

And fathers, do not provoke your children to wrath, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

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

Put on the whole armor of God so that you may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.

For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the world's rulers, of the darkness of this age, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

But, so that you also may know my affairs and how I do, Tychicus, a beloved brother and faithful minister in the Lord, shall make known to you all things,