And in him, because you listened to the proclamation of the truth, the evangel of your salvation, and trusted it, you Gentiles too were sealed with the promised Holy Spirit,

And so God has given life to you Gentiles also, who were once dead in your trespasses and sins,

And among them we all once passed our lives, indulging the passions of our flesh, carrying out the dictates of our senses and temperament, and were by nature the children of wrath like all the rest.

even while we were dead in our trespasses, made us live together with Christ (it is by grace you have been saved).

were once upon a time without Christ, aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, strangers to the covenants of the Promise, without hope and without God in the world.

But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near in the blood of Christ.

So he came preaching "Peace" to you Gentiles who were afar off, and "Peace" to us Jews who were near;

I summon you then, I the prisoner in the Lord, to live lives worthy of the calling to which you were called.

There is one body and one spirit, even as also you were called in one hope of your calling.

For you were once darkness, but are now in the Lord.

But as for you individually, you must each one of you love his own wife exactly as if she were yourself; and the wife, on her part, should reverence her husband.