do not cease giving thanks for you, making mention in my prayers,

above all rule and authority and power and lordship and every name named, not only in this age but also in the coming one,

For by grace you are saved through faith, and this [is] not from yourselves, [it is] the gift of God;

[it is] not from works, so that no one can boast.

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.

(which in other generations was not made known to the sons of men as it has now been revealed to his holy apostles and prophets by the Spirit):

Therefore I ask [you] not to be discouraged at my afflictions on behalf of you, which are your glory.

But you did not learn Christ in this way,

Be angry and do not sin; do not let the sun set on your anger,

The one who steals must steal no longer, but instead must labor, working with his own hands [what is] good, so that he may have [something] to share with the one who has need.

{No rotten word must proceed} from your mouth, but only something good for the building up of the need, in order that it may give grace to those who hear,

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

But sexual immorality, and all uncleanness, or greediness, must not even be named among you (as is fitting for saints),

and obscenity, and foolish talk, or coarse jesting (which [are] not proper), but rather thanksgiving.

For this you know {for certain}, that every sexually immoral [person], or unclean [person], or greedy [person] (who is an idolater), does not have an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God.

Therefore do not be sharers with them,

And do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but rather even expose [them].

Therefore, consider carefully how you live, not as unwise but as wise,

Because of this do not become foolish, but understand what the will of the Lord [is].

And do not be drunk with wine (in which is dissipation), but be filled by the Spirit,

in order that he might present to himself the church glorious, not having a spot or wrinkle or any such [thing], but that she may be holy and blameless.

And fathers, do not make your children angry, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

not {while being watched}, as people pleasers, but as slaves of Christ doing the will of God from the heart,

serving with goodwill as to the Lord and not to people,

because our struggle is not against blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world rulers of this darkness, against the spiritual [forces] of wickedness in the heavenly [places].