to lay aside, with your former way of living, your old self which is on the way to destruction in accordance with its deceptive impulses;

and put on the new self which has been created in the likeness of God, which fruits in right and holy living inspired by the truth.

from whom the whole body, fitted together, and connected by every joint of supply, according to the working in its measure of each one part, works for itself the increase of the body to its self-building up in love.

and walk in love, as the Christ also loved us, and gave him self for us as an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet odor.

for their [moral] understanding is darkened and their reasoning is clouded; [they are] alienated and self-banished from the life of God [with no share in it; this is] because of the [willful] ignorance and spiritual blindness that is [deep-seated] within them, because of the hardness and insensitivity of their heart.

However, each man among you [without exception] is to love his wife as his very own self [with behavior worthy of respect and esteem, always seeking the best for her with an attitude of lovingkindness], and the wife [must see to it] that she respects and delights in her husband [that she notices him and prefers him and treats him with loving concern, treasuring him, honoring him, and holding him dear].

Masters, treat your slaves the same way. Do not threaten them, for you know that both of you have the same Master in heaven, and there is no favoritism with him.

Which is that the Gentiles have a part in the heritage, and in the same body, and in the same hope in Christ through the good news,

because you know that whatever good any man does, the same shall he receive from the Lord, whether he be slave or free man.

the same in himself to have it declared when the time were full come: that all things, both the things which are in heaven, and also the things which are in earth, should be gathered together, even in Christ. That is to say, in him

He that descended, is even the same also that ascended up, even above all heavens, to fulfill all things.

And the very same, made some Apostles, some Prophets, some Evangelists, some Shepherds, some Teachers:

but all things, when they are rebuked of the light, are manifest. For whatsoever is manifest, that same is light.

For the husband is the wife's head, even as Christ is the head of the congregation, and the same is the saviour of the body.

whom I sent unto you for the same purpose: that ye might know what case I stand in, and that he might comfort your hearts.