according as he has chosen us in him before the world's foundation, that we should be holy and blameless before him in love;

among whom we also all once had our conversation in the lusts of our flesh, doing what the flesh and the thoughts willed to do, and were children, by nature, of wrath, even as the rest:

that by revelation the mystery has been made known to me, (according as I have written before briefly,

which in other generations has not been made known to the sons of men, as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets in the power of the Spirit,

But to him that is able to do far exceedingly above all which we ask or think, according to the power which works in us,

There is one body and one Spirit, as ye have been also called in one hope of your calling;

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye should no longer walk as the rest of the nations walk in the vanity of their mind,

if ye have heard him and been instructed in him according as the truth is in Jesus;

and be to one another kind, compassionate, forgiving one another, so as God also in Christ has forgiven you.

Be ye therefore imitators of God, as beloved children,

and walk in love, even as the Christ loved us, and delivered himself up for us, an offering and sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling savour.

But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints;

for ye were once darkness, but now light in the Lord; walk as children of light,

See therefore how ye walk carefully, not as unwise but as wise,

Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands, as to the Lord,

for a husband is head of the wife, as also the Christ is head of the assembly. He is Saviour of the body.

But even as the assembly is subjected to the Christ, so also wives to their own husbands in everything.

Husbands, love your own wives, even as the Christ also loved the assembly, and has delivered himself up for it,

So ought men also to love their own wives as their own bodies: he that loves his own wife loves himself.

For no one has ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, even as also the Christ the assembly:

This mystery is great, but I speak as to Christ, and as to the assembly.

But ye also, every one of you, let each so love his own wife as himself; but as to the wife I speak that she may fear the husband.

Bondmen, obey masters according to flesh, with fear and trembling, in simplicity of your heart as to the Christ;

not with eye-service as men-pleasers; but as bondmen of Christ, doing the will of God from the soul,

serving with good will as to the Lord, and not to men;

for which I am an ambassador bound with a chain, that I may be bold in it as I ought to speak.