And in Him you Gentiles also, after listening to the Message of the truth, the Good News of your salvation--having believed in Him--were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit;

that Spirit being a pledge and foretaste of our inheritance, in anticipation of its full redemption--the inheritance which He has purchased to be specially His for the extolling of His glory.

For I always beseech the God of our Lord Jesus Christ--the Father most glorious--to give you a spirit of wisdom and penetration through an intimate knowledge of Him,

because it is through Him that Jews and Gentiles alike have access through one Spirit to the Father.

in whom you also are being built up together to become a fixed abode for God through the Spirit.

which in earlier ages was not made known to the human race, as it has now been revealed to His holy Apostles and Prophets through the Spirit--

to grant you--in accordance with the wealth of His glorious perfections--to be strengthened by His Spirit with power penetrating to your inmost being.

in the uniting bond of peace, the unity given by the Spirit.

There is but one body and but one Spirit, as also when you were called you had one and the same hope held out to you.

Dependent on Him, the whole body--its various parts closely fitting and firmly adhering to one another-- grows by the aid of every contributory link, with power proportioned to the need of each individual part, so as to build itself up in a spirit of love.

And beware of grieving the Holy Spirit of God, in whom you have been sealed in preparation for the day of Redemption.

but drink deeply of God's Spirit. Speak to one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and offer praise in your hearts to the Lord.

and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit which is the word of God.

Pray with unceasing prayer and entreaty on every fitting occasion in the Spirit, and be always on the alert to seize opportunities for doing so, with unwearied persistence and entreaty on behalf of all God's people,

to spread which I am an ambassador in chains--so that when telling them I may speak out boldly as I ought.