Paul, sent of Jesus Christ by the will of God, to the holy ones being in Ephesus, and to the faithful in Christ Jesus:

Praised be God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, he having praised us in every spiritual praise in heavenly things in Christ:

As he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, for us to be holy and blameless before him in love:

Having determined us beforehand for adoption as a son by Jesus Christ to him, according to benevolence of his will,

In whom we have redemption by his blood, the letting go of faults, according to the riches of his grace;

In whom also we were cast by lot, determined beforehand according to the purpose of him performing all things according to the counsel of his will:

For us to be to the praise of his glory, who before hoped in Christ.

In whom ye also, having heard the word of truth, the good news of your salvation: in whom also having believed, ye were sealed by the holy Spirit of solemn promise,

Above every beginning, and authority, and power, and property, and every name named, not only in this life, but in that about to be:

Among whom also we then all occupied ourselves in the eager desire? of our flesh, doing the wills of the flesh and the thoughts; and were by nature children of wrath, as also the rest.

But God, being rich in mercy, by his much love which he loved us,

And we being dead in faults, he made alive together with Christ, (by grace are ye saved;)

For by grace are ye saved through faith; and this not of you: the gift of God:

Wherefore remember, that ye then the nations in the flesh, being reckoned Uncircumcision by the Circumcision in the flesh reckoned made by hands;

And that he might reconcile anew both in one body to God by the cross, having slain the eninity in it:

For by him we both have access in one Spirit to the Father.

That by revelation he made Known to me the mystery; (as I before wrote briefly,

By which ye, reading, can perceive My understanding in the mystery of Christ,)

Which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men, as now has been revealed to his holy sent and to the prophets by the Spirit:

For the nations to be co-heirs, and united in one body, and, participators of his solemn promise in Christ by the good news:

And to enlighten all what the distribution of the mystery, concealed from times immemorial in God, having created all things by Jesus Christ:

That it might now be made known to beginnings and powers in the heavenlies by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

In whom we have freedom of speech and access with confidence by his faith.

That he might give to you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with power by his Spirit in the interior man;

For Christ to dwell by faith in your hearts; in love being rendered firm, and the foundation laid,

That ye might be fully able to comprehend with all the holy what the length, and breadth, and depth, and height;

To know also the love of Christ, surpassing knowledge, that ye might be filled in all the fulness of God.

That we be no more babes, tossed about, and carried around by every wind of doctrine, in the playing at dice of men, in craft, with the artifice of deceit;

From whom all the body fitted together and joined together by every touch of the expenditure, according to the energy in measure of one of each part, makes the increase of the body to the building up of itself in love.

Being darkened in understanding, alienated from the life of God by ignorance being in them, by the hardness of their heart;

And to be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your fit of anger:

He stealing let him steal no more: and rather let him be wearied from fatigue, working good with the hands, that he have to impart to him having need.

Let all harshness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and slander, be put away from you, with all badness:

And be ye kind one to another, having good bowels, favoring each other, as also God in Christ Jesus favored you.

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as dearly beloved children;

And fornication, and all uncleanness, or overreaching, let it not be named with you, as becomes the holy;

Let none lead you astray with vain words: for by these things comes the anger of God upon the sons of disobedience.

Be ye not therefore partakers with them.

For the things done secretly by them it is also shameful to speak.

And all things refuted, by light are made manifest: for everything made manifest is light.

For this be not foolish, but understanding what the will of the Lord.

And be not drunk with wine, in which is debauchery; but be filled with the Spirit;

That he might consecrate it, having cleansed by the washing of water in the word,

That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing: but that it be holy and blameless.

For this a man shall leave his father and mother, and be joined to his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

That it may be well to thee, and thou mayest be long time upon earth.

And, fathers, be not angry with your children: but bring them up in the instruction and reminding of the Lord.

As to the rest, my brethren, be strengthened in the Lord, and in the strength of his power.

Put on the complete armor of God, for you to be able to stand against the artifices of the accuser.

For this take up the complete armor of God, that ye might be able to withstand in the evil day, and having effected all things, to stand.

Over all, having taken the shield of faith, in which ye shall be able to quench all the inflamed darts of evil.

By all prayer and supplication praying in all time in Spirit, and for this same watching vigilantly in all perseverance and supplication for the holy:

And for me, that the word might be given me, in the opening of my mouth in freedom of speech, to make known the mystery of the good news,