not as a result of [your] works [nor your attempts to keep the Law], so that no one will [be able to] boast or take credit in any way [for his salvation].

He, in fact, is our peace - who made both one, and, the enclosing middle-wall, took down,

Take notice then that no longer are you strangers and foreigners, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of God's household.

For it says:

When He ascended on high,
He took prisoners into captivity;
He gave gifts to people.

he granted some men to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, some to shepherd and teach,

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.

if, as I take it, you have heard Him and in union with Him have been taught the truth as it is seen in Jesus,

[that] you take off, according to your former way of life, the old man, who is being destroyed according to deceitful desires,

lest the devil take hold of the opportunity.

Never let any sexual vice or impurity or lust be so much as mentioned by you ??that is the proper course for saints to take;

For, this, ye know, if ye take note - that no fornicator, or impure or greedy person, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ and God.

Do not participate in the worthless and unproductive deeds of darkness, but instead expose them [by exemplifying personal integrity, moral courage, and godly character];

Take care then how you are living, not as unwise, but as wise;

And do not take overmuch wine by which one may be overcome, but be full of the Spirit;

And might take it for himself, a church full of glory, not having one mark or fold or any such thing; but that it might be holy and complete.

Take up God's instruments of war, so that you may be able to keep your position against all the deceits of the Evil One.

Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

Take your place, then, having your body clothed with the true word, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness;

In every situation take the shield of faith,
and with it you will be able to extinguish
all the flaming arrows of the evil one.

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