the eyes of your understanding being enlightened so that you may know what is the hope which His call to you inspires, what the wealth of the glory of His inheritance in God's people,

God raised us up with Christ [See Col. 2:12] and seated us with Him in the heavenly realms [i.e., in the church. See 1:3] in [fellowship with] Christ Jesus.

So remember that you were once heathen in a physical sense, called the uncircumcised by those who call themselves the circumcised -- though only in a physical sense, by human hands.

and to kill the feud between them with his cross and in one body reconcile them both to God with it.

Call upon you, then, do I -- the prisoner of the Lord -- to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called,

There is one body, and one spirit, as you also are called in one hope of your call;

nor buffoonry, which they call pleasantry, but is indecent: be you rather exercised in social virtue.

So, it says, "You who are asleep, wake up and rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you [i.e., illuminate you]." [Note: The foregoing words may have been an early saying, used at someone's immersion, which included the ideas of "rising up" (See Col. 2:12) and "illumination" (See Heb. 6:4)].