so that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.

having abolished in His flesh the enmity (the Law of commandments contained in ordinances) so that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, making peace between them;

and so that He might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity in Himself.

so that now to the rulers and powers in the heavenlies might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

so that we no longer may be infants, tossed to and fro and carried about by every wind of doctrine, in the dishonesty of men, in cunning craftiness, to the wiles of deceit.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you should not walk from now on as other nations walk, in the vanity of their mind,

But you have not so learned Christ,

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.

And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake has forgiven you.

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

Therefore as the church is subject to Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in everything.

So men ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself.

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

so that it may be well with you, and that you may live long on the earth.

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.

for which I am an ambassador in bonds; so that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.

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,