Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

which he worked in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and made him to sit at his right hand in the heavenly places,

that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

from whom all the body, being fitted and knit together through that which every joint supplies, according to the working in measure of each individual part, makes the body increase to the building up of itself in love.

being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their hearts;

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outcry, and slander, be put away from you, with all malice.

Therefore he says, "Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you."

not in the way of service only when eyes are on you, as men pleasers; but as servants of Christ, doing the will of God from the heart;

knowing that whatever good thing each one does, he will receive the same again from the Lord, whether he is bound or free.

Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.