in whom also we were chosen, having been predestined according to the purpose of the One who works all [things] according to the counsel of his will,

in whom also you, when you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, in whom also when you believed you were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

And you, {although you were dead} in your trespasses and sins,

among whom also we all formerly lived in the desires of our flesh, doing the will of the flesh and of the mind, and we were children of wrath by nature, as also the rest of [them] were.

that you were at that time apart from Christ, alienated from the citizenship of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of promise, not having hope, and without God in the world.

But now in Christ Jesus you, the ones who once were far away, have become near by the blood of Christ.

And coming, he proclaimed the good news of peace to you who were far away and peace to the ones who were near,

Therefore I, the prisoner in the Lord, exhort you to live in a manner worthy of the calling with which you were called:

one body and one Spirit (just as also you were called with one hope of your calling),

if indeed you have heard [about] him, and you were taught by him (just as truth is in Jesus),

and do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, by whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.

for you were formerly darkness, but now [you are] light in the Lord. Live like children of light