destining us in love to be his sons through Jesus Christ. Such was the purpose of his will,

so as himself to give the death-blow to that feud by reconciling them both to God in one Body through the cross;

for it is through him that we both enjoy our access to the Father in one Spirit.

through whom, as we have faith in him, we enjoy our confidence of free access.

For there is one Body and one Spirit ??as you were called for the one hope that belongs to your call ??5 one Lord, one faith, one baptism,

Now in the Lord I insist and protest that you must give up living like pagans; for their purposes are futile,

their intelligence is darkened, they are estranged from the life of God by the ignorance which their dulness of heart has produced in them ??19 men who have recklessly abandoned themselves to sensuality, with a lust for the business of impurity in every shape and form.

as the church is subject to Christ, so wives are to be subject to their husbands in every respect.

So ought husbands to love their wives ??to love them as their own bodies (he who loves his wife loves himself).

instead of merely working when their eye is on you, like those who court human favour, do God's will from the heart like servants of Christ,

And as for you masters, act by your servants in the same way, and stop threatening them; be sure that they and you have a Lord and Master in heaven, and there is no partiality about him.